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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Capacity to Be Alone.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Barbara McClintock receive her Ph.D.?
(a) 1923.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1927.

2. What was the name of the science that was born in T. H. Morgan's lab?
(a) Cytogenetics.
(b) Botony.
(c) Mycogenetics
(d) Radiation genetics.

3. What instrument did Barbara play in a jazz improvisation group?
(a) Tenor banjo.
(b) Bass guitar.
(c) Saxaphone.
(d) Piano.

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

5. What did Barbara's sister, Marjorie, become?
(a) A professional harpist.
(b) A banker.
(c) A rodeo queen.
(d) A school teacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of T.H. Morgan's single laboratory at Columbia University?

2. Both of the grandparents on Barbara's mother side could be traced back to what?

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

4. What profession did Barbara's father have?

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

(see the answer key)

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