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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. What did Barbara's uncle do for a living?
(a) He was a baker.
(b) He was a fish dealer.
(c) He was a scientist.
(d) He was a farmer.

2. In what year did McClintock and her student, Harriet Creighton, publish a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1925.

3. In what year was Barbara McClintock elected Vice President of the Genetics Society of America?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1939.

4. What profession did Barbara's father have?
(a) He was a dentist.
(b) He was a horse trainer.
(c) He was a fisherman.
(d) He was a doctor.

5. How old was Barbara when her name was changed to Barbara?
(a) Four years old.
(b) Three years old.
(c) Three months old.
(d) Four months old.

Short Answer Questions

1. The differences that were studied in fruit flies had to do with their eye color and what else?

2. What was the name of the book that was published by Morgan, Sturtevant, Muller, and Bridges?

3. Barbara McClintock worked in Cold Spring Harbor since what year?

4. In Chapter 1, it is mentioned that immune systems were studied in what animal?

5. In what year was Barbara McClintock born?

(see the answer key)

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