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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 9, Evelyn Keller quotes Einstein. He said, "To these elementary laws there leads no logical path, but only" what?
(a) Discovery.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Experience.
(d) Intuition.

2. In what year did Evelyn Witkin come to Cold Spring Harbor?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1951.

3. Who was quoted in the book as saying, "You let the material tell you where to go, and it tells you at every step what the next has to be?"
(a) Barbara McClintock.
(b) Evelyn Witkin.
(c) Marcus Rhoades.
(d) Harriet Creighton.

4. DNA makes RNA and RNA makes what?
(a) Eukaryotes
(b) Protein.
(c) Bacteria.
(d) Us.

5. In Chapter 7, Esther Parker had bought a farm that was located how many miles north of Ithaca?
(a) Twenty-five.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Forty-five.
(d) Fifty.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1942, why had the atmosphere at Cold Spring Harbor become even quieter than normal?

2. Keller states in Chapter 12 that good science cannot proceed without what?

3. In 1941, how many geneticists did Cold Spring Harbor draw?

4. What is one of the most fundamental questions of genetics that was mentioned in the beginning of Chapter 11?

5. It is mentioned in Chapter 7 that in hindsight, most historians would say that the molecular revolution began at what time?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were some of the reasons that Cold Spring Harbor was appealing to scientists during the summer?

2. What did Barbara feel was an organism that was especially unappreciated and why?

3. In the early twentieth century what kind of science did biology transform into and what kind of science had it been before that?

4. How did Barbara arrange to get an invitation to Cold Spring Harbor?

5. How did Max Delbruck put Cold Spring Harbor on the map and for whom?

6. What did George Beadle tell Warren Weaver of the Rockefeller Foundation about Barbara's visit to Stanford?

7. in the late 1950s, what was the new option that materialized for Barbara?

8. Describe how the information or data that Barbara had collected filled her office.

9. Among the plants in Barbara's very first crop there was one that was particularly noteworthy. Why?

10. What were the three critical factors in Millikan's style of research that Holton cited?

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