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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. 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) Barbara plants.
(b) Transfusion treat.
(c) Ring chromosome plants.
(d) McClintock corn.

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

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

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

5. In what year did Cornell appoint its first woman assistant professor in something other than home economics?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1947.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was the first name of Barbara's father?

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

5. To what position was Barbara McClintock elected in 1945?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the difference of studying genetics in maize versus Drosophilia?

2. What were the fundamental questions of genetics during the time of the early 1930s?

3. What happened with Sara Handy and Thomas McClintock after Thomas graduated from Boston University Medical school?

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

5. In Chapter 6, what are the three major concerns of twentieth-century biology that are mentioned?

6. 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?

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

8. 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?

9. What are the three stages of prophase in meiosis?

10. What does C.D. Darlington remind his colleagues of in the opening pages of Recent Advances in Cytology?

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