Join the Lab
Take the following quiz to determine your suitability for joining the Hoke lab.
1) Place the following in order of importance for your life:
a) bench paper
b) lint roller
c) cookies
d) ikea
e) fresh air
2) With which of the following organisms do you most identify? (descriptive poems found on the internet to guide your choice)
a) Venus’s girdle: “a creature so diaphanous, so immaterial, so beautiful, it could hardly be
of our world. Better in the company of angels.”
b) Angler fish: “To be driven by impelling odor headlong upon a mate so gigantic, in such
immerse and forbidding darkness, and willfully to eat a hole in her soft side, to feel the
gradually increasing transfusion of her blood through one’s veins, to lose everything that
marked one as other than a worm, to become a brainless, senseless thing that was a fish –
this is sheer fiction, beyond all belief unless we have seen the proof of it.”
c) Snails “Persevering with Sluggish determination Snails never leave home.”
d) Cow: “They grunt and sniffle, hardly see them smile, but seeing them as you pass can
make you happy for a while.”
3) We might find you listening to (choose as many as apply):
a) Eurovision Song Contest
b) Florence and the Machine
c) Tell it to my heart by Taylor Dayne
d) Crooked Still
e) This American Life
4) What's your shoe size?
5) How many fields of biology are you willing to master in your thesis work? _________
6) Hammocks are ________.
7) Is this funny? Yes/No.
Take the following quiz to determine your suitability for joining the Hoke lab.
1) Place the following in order of importance for your life:
a) bench paper
b) lint roller
c) cookies
d) ikea
e) fresh air
2) With which of the following organisms do you most identify? (descriptive poems found on the internet to guide your choice)
a) Venus’s girdle: “a creature so diaphanous, so immaterial, so beautiful, it could hardly be
of our world. Better in the company of angels.”
b) Angler fish: “To be driven by impelling odor headlong upon a mate so gigantic, in such
immerse and forbidding darkness, and willfully to eat a hole in her soft side, to feel the
gradually increasing transfusion of her blood through one’s veins, to lose everything that
marked one as other than a worm, to become a brainless, senseless thing that was a fish –
this is sheer fiction, beyond all belief unless we have seen the proof of it.”
c) Snails “Persevering with Sluggish determination Snails never leave home.”
d) Cow: “They grunt and sniffle, hardly see them smile, but seeing them as you pass can
make you happy for a while.”
3) We might find you listening to (choose as many as apply):
a) Eurovision Song Contest
b) Florence and the Machine
c) Tell it to my heart by Taylor Dayne
d) Crooked Still
e) This American Life
4) What's your shoe size?
5) How many fields of biology are you willing to master in your thesis work? _________
6) Hammocks are ________.
7) Is this funny? Yes/No.
