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

2. What did the Dean at the University of Missouri tell Barbara would happen if something happened to Stadler?
(a) That they would promote her to Stadler's job.
(b) That she could take the Dean's place after he retired.
(c) That Stadler would try to get her to leave.
(d) That they would have to fire her.

3. What was the first name of Barbara's father?
(a) Henry.
(b) Thomas.
(c) Samuel.
(d) Adam.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What high school did Barbara attend?

3. In what year was the term "genetics" coined?

4. Who was the Vice President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1937?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Barbara's temperament as a child and what happened because of it.

2. When Ross Harrison gave his retirement speech from the vice presidency of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1937, what did he state the embryologist was more concerned with?

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

4. What two people did Barbara McClintock invite to Cold Spring Harbor to outline the parallels with her own work and how was their work different from McClintock's?

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

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

7. What were Barbara's "personality difficulties" as described by T. H. Morgan?

8. An excerpt from Frank Hanson's informal notes about Barbara McClintock are found in Chapter 4. How does Hanson describe Barbara's physical appearance?

9. 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?

10. What happened to Barbara a little more than a year after her brother, Tom, was born?

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