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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was the principle object of interest to cytologists?
(a) Neutrons.
(b) Cells.
(c) Chromosomes.
(d) Genes.

4. Who wrote A Short History of Genetics?
(a) Lewis Stadler.
(b) L.C. Dunn.
(c) Barbara McClintock.
(d) Hugh Gavlin.

5. Lewis Stadler had been at the University of Missouri in Columbia since what year?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1919.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Barbara McClintock receive her Ph.D.?

2. What year was it that Barbara requested a leave of absence without pay and left Missouri?

3. How long did the first conversation between Evelyn Keller and Barbara McClintock last?

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

5. What does Evelyn Keller state is the best word to describe Barbara McClintock's stance on life?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some things that were described in Chapter 5 that Barbara did that "irk the authorities" at Missouri?

2. What did T.H. Morgan tell a disappointed reader who confronted him about his book, Embryology and Genetics?

3. What did Barbara do when she heard of people that were being hired as associate professors that didn't have the same credentials as herself, yet she remained an assistant professor?

4. Why did Barbara adamantly reject female conventions and why was she not trying to just be "more boy than girl"?

5. Why did Barbara's position at Missouri not work out, according to Barbara herself?

6. When C.D. Darlington was describing the views of colleagues in different types of sciences, which type of scientist does he compare to the naturalist and how does a naturalist see chromosomes?

7. After Barbara received her PhD in botany and was appointed as an instructor, she knew what her next task would be. What was that task?

8. Who was Lewis Stadler and why did he want Barbara as a colleague?

9. In the mid-1930's and when she left Missouri what had she considered doing because of her jobless status?

10. What happened when Barbara discovered a way to identify maize chromosomes when she was working as a paid assistant to a cytologist?

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