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

2. Who wrote the book, Embryology and Genetics?
(a) L.C. Dunn.
(b) T.H. Morgan.
(c) Barbara McClintock.
(d) C.D. Darlington.

3. Who was the President of the Carnegie Institution that Demerec urged Barbara to go talk to?
(a) Charles B. Davenport.
(b) Marcus Rhoades.
(c) Vannevar Bush.
(d) Salvador Luria.

4. Who did Barbara write to to arrange an invitation to Cold Springs Harbor?
(a) Rollins Emerson.
(b) Esther Parker.
(c) Milislav Demerec.
(d) Marcus Rhoades.

5. There was a gap that appeared in Barbara's list of publications. In what year did she not publish anything?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1935.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Barbara think wasn't solvable, but was "merely a symbol"?

2. In what year did McClintock complete her graduate work?

3. In Chapter 7, Esther Parker had bought a farm that was located how many miles north of Ithaca?

4. Chromosomes became shorter and thicker during the first stage of what?

5. Who said, "She is sore at the world because of her conviction that she would have a much freer scientific opportunity if she were a man"?

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