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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Barbara's uncle do for a living?
(a) He was a fish dealer.
(b) He was a baker.
(c) He was a farmer.
(d) He was a scientist.

3. What does Evelyn Keller state is the best word to describe Barbara McClintock's stance on life?
(a) Autonomy.
(b) Completed.
(c) Seclusion.
(d) Alone.

4. When it became clear to Barbara that she could no longer stay at Missouri, what did she consider as a possible career?
(a) Geography.
(b) Geology.
(c) Meteorology.
(d) Botony.

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

6. How much was the grant that the Rockefeller Foundation gave to Stadler in the mid-1930's?
(a) $50,000.
(b) $70,000.
(c) $90,000.
(d) $80,000.

7. When Barbara went to visit Stadler in Missouri, she went to look at the corn that they had. Barbara noticed that they were calling the corn what?
(a) McClintock corn.
(b) Barbara plants.
(c) Ring chromosome plants.
(d) Transfusion treat.

8. Lew Stadler had been on the faculty at the University of Missouri in Columbia since what year?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1914.

9. The differences that were studied in fruit flies had to do with their eye color and what else?
(a) Leg thickness.
(b) Eye shape.
(c) Wing shape.
(d) Wing color.

10. What was the name of T.H. Morgan's single laboratory at Columbia University?
(a) Fly Room.
(b) Fly Lab.
(c) Guy's Room.
(d) Fly Guy's Lab.

11. When Barbara was taking a geology final when she was a Junior in college, what couldn't she remember?
(a) Her name.
(b) Her teacher's name.
(c) The room number the class was in.
(d) The name of the class.

12. The subject of cytogenetics is about the relationship between the chromosomes and what?
(a) The nuclei.
(b) The genetic systems.
(c) The chromatids.
(d) Transfusion.

13. Who described Barbara as having a "green thumb" because everything she did turned into something big?
(a) Marcus Rhoades.
(b) L.C. Dunn.
(c) Her father, Dr. McClintock.
(d) Lewis Stadler.

14. When McClintock speaks about having no chance of being promoted she states that she was excluded from what?
(a) Faculty meetings.
(b) Weekend get-togethers.
(c) Class time with other professors.
(d) Decisions about the department.

15. What did Barbara think wasn't solvable, but was "merely a symbol"?
(a) Genes.
(b) Maize kernals.
(c) Chromosomes.
(d) Cells.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Hanson's informal notes concerning Barbara, he claims that she weighed approximately how many pounds?

2. In what year did Cornell appoint its first woman assistant professor in something other than home economics?

3. Who was the head of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute when Barbara received the Guggenheim Fellowship?

4. In 1944, a paper was published demonstrating that what provided the material basis for inheritance?

5. Darlington described that in an adaptive hierarchy the chromosomes always come first. What comes second?

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