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

2. In the summer of 1931, an invitation from Lewis Stadler brought Barbara where?
(a) The University of Missouri.
(b) Missouri State University.
(c) The University of Central Missouri.
(d) Webster University.

3. What was the word or words that Barbara used in the book to describe a plant that was part dominant and part recessive?
(a) Dual matched.
(b) Transfused.
(c) Combined.
(d) Variegated.

4. In Hanson's informal notes concerning Barbara, he claims that she weighed approximately how many pounds?
(a) 110.
(b) 95.
(c) 90.
(d) 100.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are chromosomes found?

2. Who discovered the enormous salivary chromosomes of Drosophila?

3. In what year did McClintock and her student, Harriet Creighton, publish a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences?

4. What profession did Barbara's father have?

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

(see the answer key)

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