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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A problem that had caught Barbara's fancy was a small body on the end of what chromosome?
(a) Chromosome 3.
(b) Chromosome 2.
(c) Chromosome 9.
(d) Chromosome 6.

2. How long did the first conversation between Evelyn Keller and Barbara McClintock last?
(a) Thirty minutes.
(b) Two hours.
(c) Forty-five minutes.
(d) Five hours.

3. What instrument did Barbara play in a jazz improvisation group?
(a) Saxaphone.
(b) Bass guitar.
(c) Tenor banjo.
(d) Piano.

4. What is the word that describes a chromosome that has two centromeres?
(a) Dicentromeric.
(b) Digenetic.
(c) Dicentric.
(d) Dichromosomic.

5. How many kinds of nuclear division do cells undergo?
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) None.

6. What was the name of the cytology professor that gave Barbara private courses on Saturdays?
(a) Marcus Rhoades.
(b) Lester Sharp.
(c) Rollins Emerson.
(d) Thomas Belling.

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

8. Who was the head of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute when Barbara received the Guggenheim Fellowship?
(a) Curt Stern.
(b) Marcus Rhoades.
(c) Lewis Stadler.
(d) Richard B. Goldschmidt.

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

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

11. In what year did Barbara McClintock receive her Ph.D.?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1930.

12. 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 thesis advisor.
(c) He was her priest.
(d) He was a fellow researcher on a paper.

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

14. Barbara McClintock worked in Cold Spring Harbor since what year?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1931.

15. Who discovered the enormous salivary chromosomes of Drosophila?
(a) T. Painter.
(b) M. Rhoades.
(c) J. Lenderberg.
(d) G. Beadle.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did McClintock and her student, Harriet Creighton, publish a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences?

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

3. In what year was Barbara McClintock born?

4. What kind of work did Barbara's mother do contribute and make money?

5. In Chapter 1, it is mentioned that immune systems were studied in what animal?

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