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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Cold Spring Harbor.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After what length of time did Demerec propose to make Barbara's position permanent at Cold Springs Harbor?
(a) Ten days.
(b) Two months.
(c) A year.
(d) A week.

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

3. In 1941, how many geneticists did Cold Spring Harbor draw?
(a) Over eighty.
(b) Over seventy.
(c) Over ninety.
(d) Over sixty.

4. Where did Harriet Creighton take a teaching job in 1934?
(a) University of Missouri.
(b) Connecticut College for Women.
(c) Cornell.
(d) Yale.

5. What did Barbara think wasn't solvable, but was "merely a symbol"?
(a) Maize kernals.
(b) Cells.
(c) Chromosomes.
(d) Genes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the Recent Advances in Cytology?

2. In what year did Cornell appoint its first woman assistant professor in something other than home economics?

3. What was the first name of Barbara's mother?

4. What was the first name of Barbara's father?

5. An experimental breeder can tell what a chromosomes is like from doing what?

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