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

2. What high school did Barbara attend?
(a) Erasmus Hall High School.
(b) Maxwell High School.
(c) Brooklyn High School.
(d) James Madison High School.

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

4. The cytology professor that helped Barbara on Saturdays also did what for her?
(a) He helped pay for a new bike for Barbara.
(b) He was her priest.
(c) He was her thesis advisor.
(d) He was a fellow researcher on a paper.

5. In 1933, Barbara received a Guggenheim Fellowship to go where?
(a) China.
(b) Austria.
(c) Germany.
(d) Russia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the principle object of interest to cytologists?

2. The subject of cytogenetics is about the relationship between the chromosomes and what?

3. Lew Stadler had been on the faculty at the University of Missouri in Columbia since what year?

4. What profession did Barbara's father have?

5. While at the University of Missouri, Barbara was given little encouragement and even another woman was promoted to the rank of associate professor of zoology. What was the woman's name?

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