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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Stadler and McClintock share a keen interest in concerning maize?
(a) The length of its generations.
(b) Its genetic composition.
(c) The length of its chromosomes.
(d) Its ease of study.

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

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

5. 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 climactic decade.
(c) The discovery decade.
(d) The evolving decade.

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

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

8. In what year was the term "genetics" coined?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1905.

9. In what year did Richard B. Goldschmidt die?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1949.

10. How long did Barbara have the position of assistant professor?
(a) Five years.
(b) Seven years.
(c) Ten years.
(d) Three years.

11. What was the first name of Barbara's mother?
(a) Marie.
(b) Rose.
(c) Sara.
(d) Sue.

12. In what year was Barbara McClintock elected Vice President of the Genetics Society of America?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1942.

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

14. One day, why did Barbara climb the side of a building and let herself in a window?
(a) Because she wanted to surprise a friend.
(b) Because she had forgot her keys.
(c) Because she was trying to catch a cat.
(d) Because she was displaying to her students that you can't always follow the norm.

15. Ribosomes are the what of protein synthesis?
(a) Garbage cans.
(b) Workmen.
(c) Factories.
(d) Wheels.

Short Answer Questions

1. What characteristically induces many chromosome breaks?

2. Who described Barbara as having a "green thumb" because everything she did turned into something big?

3. Who said, "I've known a lot of famous scientists. But the only one I thought really was a genius was McClintock"?

4. Both of the grandparents on Barbara's mother side could be traced back to what?

5. What was the name of the cytology professor that gave Barbara private courses on Saturdays?

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