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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. When Barbara was taking a geology final when she was a Junior in college, what couldn't she remember?
(a) The room number the class was in.
(b) Her teacher's name.
(c) The name of the class.
(d) Her name.

2. Barbara McClintock worked in Cold Spring Harbor since what year?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1934.

3. In what year was the first woman admitted to Cornell University?
(a) 1893.
(b) 1881.
(c) 1872.
(d) 1869.

4. What was the first name of Barbara's father?
(a) Henry.
(b) Adam.
(c) Samuel.
(d) Thomas.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age did Barbara ask for a set of tools?

2. In 1944, a paper was published demonstrating that what provided the material basis for inheritance?

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

5. In what year was Barbara McClintock born?

(see the answer key)

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