View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Interlude: A Sketch of the Terrain.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Barbara's father made an unofficial visit Frank Hanson concerning his daughter, he was currently working for what company as an industrial surgeon?
(a) Standard Oil.
(b) Consolidated Iron Mines.
(c) World Oil.
(d) Rockefeller Group.

2. In what year was the first woman admitted to Cornell University?
(a) 1872.
(b) 1881.
(c) 1869.
(d) 1893.

3. What did the Dean at the University of Missouri tell Barbara would happen if something happened to Stadler?
(a) That she could take the Dean's place after he retired.
(b) That Stadler would try to get her to leave.
(c) That they would have to fire her.
(d) That they would promote her to Stadler's job.

4. When it became clear to Barbara that she could no longer stay at Missouri, what did she consider as a possible career?
(a) Meteorology.
(b) Botony.
(c) Geography.
(d) Geology.

5. What was the name of T.H. Morgan's single laboratory at Columbia University?
(a) Guy's Room.
(b) Fly Room.
(c) Fly Lab.
(d) Fly Guy's Lab.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the word that is used to describe the joining of fragments that have broken off a chromosome?

2. When Barbara was taking a geology final when she was a Junior in college, what couldn't she remember?

3. How often did fruit flies give geneticists a new generation to study?

4. What was the name of the book that was published by Morgan, Sturtevant, Muller, and Bridges?

5. Who discovered the enormous salivary chromosomes of Drosophila?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 269 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample