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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of work did Barbara's mother do contribute and make money?
(a) She taught cooking classes.
(b) She gave violin lessons.
(c) She gave piano lessons.
(d) She taught dance.

2. What did Barbara's sister, Marjorie, become?
(a) A banker.
(b) A rodeo queen.
(c) A professional harpist.
(d) A school teacher.

3. Many mutations that were happening in the maize had never been seen before, and some of these involved gross changes in what?
(a) The generation length.
(b) The nucleolus in the cells of the corn.
(c) The arrangement of the chromosomes.
(d) The productivity of the corn itself.

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

5. What did Cornell geneticists study instead of fruit flies?
(a) Mice.
(b) Maize.
(c) Caterpillars.
(d) Mosquitoes.

6. What was the word or words that Barbara used in the book to describe a plant that was part dominant and part recessive?
(a) Variegated.
(b) Combined.
(c) Dual matched.
(d) Transfused.

7. Darlington described that in an adaptive hierarchy the chromosomes always come first. What comes second?
(a) Genes.
(b) Organisms.
(c) Transposed cells.
(d) Second generation chromosomes.

8. An experimental breeder can tell what a chromosomes is like from doing what?
(a) Peering at it through a microscope.
(b) Seeing diagrams of the particular chromosome.
(c) Looking at the genetic code.
(d) Looking at the whole organism.

9. Who was the co-author with McClintock on the paper that provided conclusive evidence for the chromosomal basis of genetics?
(a) Marcus Rhoades.
(b) Rollins Emerson.
(c) Harriet Creighton.
(d) George Beadle.

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

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

12. In what year was Barbara McClintock born?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1904.
(d) 1902.

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

14. What are considered to be the mainstay of genetic research?
(a) Cells.
(b) Mutations.
(c) Chromosomes.
(d) Genes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age did Barbara ask for a set of tools?

2. What is another word for the process of synapsis?

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

4. How much was the grant that the Rockefeller Foundation gave to Stadler in the mid-1930's?

5. One day, why did Barbara climb the side of a building and let herself in a window?

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