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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who presented the second paper in the 1951 symposium?

2. How many kinds of RNA are made?

3. How many years later was it when Barbara made her second presentation at the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium?

4. Why did Barbara feel bad every time she walked on grass?

5. In Chapter 12, Keller mentions that the adaptability of what tends to be especially unappreciated?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happened when Lotte Auerbach from the University of Edinburgh visited Barbara in her lab at Cold Spring Harbor?

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

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

5. In Chapter 7, when it was mentioned that Barbara was in private upheaval, what significant event happened during that time and why was she in private upheaval?

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

7. What did Lewis Stadler point out about the knowledge of genes and who else made this point with him?

8. What difference did Milislav Demerec observe about the symposium papers from 1941 compared to the papers from 1951?

9. What is the answer to Eveyln Keller's question when she asks, "What enabled McClintock to see further and deeper into the mysteries of genetics than her colleagues?"

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain Watson and Crick's research, what they were famous for, and what their answer was to the question in Chapter 11, "how do genes make exact copies of themselves?"

Essay Topic 2

During the course of her life, Barbara McClintock had to deal with a lot of prejudices just because she was a woman. How would her life have been different had she been a man? Do you think she ever regretted the fact that she was a woman? Why or why not? Do you think women today still face certain barriers and "glass ceilings"? Explain your reasoning.

Essay Topic 3

Explain Rudolf Arnheim's words he wrote in Art and Visual Perception saying, "the realm of the unconscious could never enter our experience without the reflection of perceivable things." How does this quote relate to the life of Barbara McClintock?

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