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

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

3. How does an anatomist see chromosomes?
(a) As representing a chemical structure and a genetic code.
(b) As very small rod-shaped bodies possibly present in all cells.
(c) As a property of the organism.
(d) Through a math formula.

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

5. What were the names of the flies that were used in studying genetics?
(a) Diptera.
(b) Anopheles.
(c) Drosophilia.
(d) Musca.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does NOR stand for?

2. What was the name of the science that was born in T. H. Morgan's lab?

3. What was the first name of Barbara's mother?

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

5. In 1936, the University of Missouri offered Barbara what kind of position?

(see the answer key)

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