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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, A Feeling for the Organism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 10, who did Stadler quote to support one of his arguments?
(a) The Queen of Hearts.
(b) Humpty Dumpty.
(c) The Mad Hatter.
(d) Alice in Wonderland.

2. In Chapter 9, Evelyn Keller quotes Einstein. He said, "To these elementary laws there leads no logical path, but only" what?
(a) Dreams.
(b) Discovery.
(c) Intuition.
(d) Experience.

3. What does Keller state is a prerequisite for Barbara's extraordinary perspicacity?
(a) Her drive to succeed.
(b) Her love for studying.
(c) Her willingness to let her brain take over.
(d) Her ultimate knowledge.

4. Barbara McClintock sent off a paper entitled "Some Parallels Between Gene Control Systems in Maize and in Bacteria" to where?
(a) American Scientist.
(b) Naturalism in America.
(c) The Chicago Journal.
(d) American Naturalist.

5. Who said, "She is sore at the world because of her conviction that she would have a much freer scientific opportunity if she were a man"?
(a) Warren Weaver.
(b) Harriet Creighton.
(c) Marcus Rhoades.
(d) T.H. Morgan.

Short Answer Questions

1. An experimental breeder can tell what a chromosomes is like from doing what?

2. What was the name of T.H. Morgan's single laboratory at Columbia University?

3. In what year did Lewis Stadler die?

4. What did Cornell geneticists study instead of fruit flies?

5. When Barbara's father made an unofficial visit Frank Hanson concerning his daughter, he was currently working for what company as an industrial surgeon?

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