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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, A Career for Women.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Cornell geneticists study instead of fruit flies?
(a) Mice.
(b) Maize.
(c) Caterpillars.
(d) Mosquitoes.

2. In what year did Cornell appoint its first woman assistant professor in something other than home economics?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1947.

3. The differences that were studied in fruit flies had to do with their eye color and what else?
(a) Leg thickness.
(b) Eye shape.
(c) Wing color.
(d) Wing shape.

4. Who discovered the enormous salivary chromosomes of Drosophila?
(a) M. Rhoades.
(b) T. Painter.
(c) G. Beadle.
(d) J. Lenderberg.

5. How long did the first conversation between Evelyn Keller and Barbara McClintock last?
(a) Two hours.
(b) Forty-five minutes.
(c) Thirty minutes.
(d) Five hours.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the Sixth European Nucleolar Workshop held?

2. What was the term that McClintock phrased that meant a capacity to change positions?

3. When Barbara's father made an unofficial visit Frank Hanson concerning his daughter, he was currently working for what company as an industrial surgeon?

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

5. What was the name of the cytology professor that gave Barbara private courses on Saturdays?

(see the answer key)

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