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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. In A Short History of Genetics, the decade preceding World War II was described as what decade of classical genetics?
(a) The newborn decade.
(b) The evolving decade.
(c) The discovery decade.
(d) The climactic decade.

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

3. In what year was the Recent Advances in Cytology published?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1935.

4. George Beadle was a young graduate student from where?
(a) Iowa.
(b) South Dakota.
(c) Kansas.
(d) Nebraska.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what position was Barbara McClintock elected in 1945?

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

4. Many mutations that were happening in the maize had never been seen before, and some of these involved gross changes in what?

5. There was a gap that appeared in Barbara's list of publications. In what year did she not publish anything?

(see the answer key)

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