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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. In the fall of what year did Evelyn Keller drive out to Cold Spring Harbor to speak with Barbara McClintock?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1978.

2. What did Stadler and McClintock share a keen interest in concerning maize?
(a) The length of its chromosomes.
(b) The length of its generations.
(c) Its ease of study.
(d) Its genetic composition.

3. Where are chromosomes found?
(a) In a cell's spindle.
(b) On a cell's centrosome.
(c) In a cell's nucleolus.
(d) In a cell's nucleous.

4. In Milislav Demerec's first moves in his new position as the Director of the Department of Genetics of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, he gave Barbara a position for what length of time?
(a) Five years.
(b) Two years.
(c) One year.
(d) Ten years.

5. At what age did Barbara ask for a set of tools?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Six.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Barbara's sister, Marjorie, become?

2. When Barbara went to visit Stadler in Missouri, she went to look at the corn that they had. Barbara noticed that they were calling the corn what?

3. How many kinds of nuclear division do cells undergo?

4. In what year was the first woman admitted to Cornell University?

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

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