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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. While at the University of Missouri, Barbara was given little encouragement and even another woman was promoted to the rank of associate professor of zoology. What was the woman's name?
(a) Harriet Creighton.
(b) Mary Jane Guthrie.
(c) Harriet Guthrie.
(d) Mary Jane Creighton.

2. In what year did McClintock complete her graduate work?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1927.

3. What part of the corn was considered to be the endosperm tissue?
(a) The stalk.
(b) The silk.
(c) The kernel.
(d) The husk.

4. What did Barbara's uncle do for a living?
(a) He was a fish dealer.
(b) He was a farmer.
(c) He was a baker.
(d) He was a scientist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did Barbara have the position of assistant professor?

2. What profession did Barbara's father have?

3. Where are chromosomes found?

4. What did Barbara's sister, Marjorie, become?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is the final stage of mitosis and what happens during this phase?

10. When Barbara went to Germany because of her Guggenheim Fellowship, why did she describe it later as a "very, very traumatic" experience?

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