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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Interlude: A Sketch of the Terrain.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long did the first conversation between Evelyn Keller and Barbara McClintock last?
(a) Forty-five minutes.
(b) Two hours.
(c) Thirty minutes.
(d) Five hours.

2. Who said, "I've known a lot of famous scientists. But the only one I thought really was a genius was McClintock"?
(a) George Beadle.
(b) Rollins Emerson.
(c) Marcus Rhoades.
(d) Charles Burnham.

3. How long did Barbara have the position of assistant professor?
(a) Three years.
(b) Seven years.
(c) Five years.
(d) Ten years.

4. Where did Harriet Creighton take a teaching job in 1934?
(a) Connecticut College for Women.
(b) Yale.
(c) Cornell.
(d) University of Missouri.

5. Who said, "For us, neither the chemical code, nor the linkage map of the chromosome, nor the genes embodied in it, are enough"?
(a) C.D. Darlington.
(b) James Stilworth.
(c) L.C. Dunn.
(d) Barbara McClintock.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many kinds of nuclear division do cells undergo?

2. What did Barbara think wasn't solvable, but was "merely a symbol"?

3. In A Short History of Genetics, the decade preceding World War II was described as what decade of classical genetics?

4. In what year did Richard B. Goldschmidt die?

5. How does an anatomist see chromosomes?

(see the answer key)

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