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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, 1936-1941: University of Missouri.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who was the head of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute when Barbara received the Guggenheim Fellowship?
(a) Marcus Rhoades.
(b) Curt Stern.
(c) Lewis Stadler.
(d) Richard B. Goldschmidt.

4. What was the name of the book that was published by Morgan, Sturtevant, Muller, and Bridges?
(a) Medelian Mode of Inheritance.
(b) Mendelian Segregation.
(c) The Theory of Mendelian Heredity.
(d) The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old was Barbara when her name was changed to Barbara?

3. What characteristically induces many chromosome breaks?

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

5. In the summer of 1931, an invitation from Lewis Stadler brought Barbara where?

(see the answer key)

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