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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's father made an unofficial visit Frank Hanson concerning his daughter, he was currently working for what company as an industrial surgeon?
(a) Consolidated Iron Mines.
(b) Standard Oil.
(c) Rockefeller Group.
(d) World Oil.

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

3. What year was it that Barbara requested a leave of absence without pay and left Missouri?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1943.

4. In A Short History of Genetics, the decade preceding World War II was described as what decade of classical genetics?
(a) The evolving decade.
(b) The discovery decade.
(c) The newborn decade.
(d) The climactic decade.

5. George Beadle was a young graduate student from where?
(a) South Dakota.
(b) Nebraska.
(c) Kansas.
(d) Iowa.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old was Barbara when her name was changed to Barbara?

3. Who was considered to be the severest critic in the field of genetics during Barbara's time in the field?

4. What was the first name of Barbara's mother?

5. Who said, "For us, neither the chemical code, nor the linkage map of the chromosome, nor the genes embodied in it, are enough"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when Barbara signed up for a large overload of classes at Cornell and why did she do it?

2. What did James A. Peters say about the paper that Harriet Creighton and Barbara McClintock wrote?

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

4. Why was the year 1944 a crucial year for Barbara McClintock and the history of genetics?

5. Who was the person that came to Cornell to get his PhD in genetics, why did he come to Cornell, and what was his previous experience?

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

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

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 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?

10. Why did Barbara experience long-term consequences because of the absence of a professional niche?

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