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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 the first conversation between Evelyn Keller and Barbara McClintock last?
(a) Two hours.
(b) Five hours.
(c) Forty-five minutes.
(d) Thirty minutes.

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

3. Who discovered the enormous salivary chromosomes of Drosophila?
(a) M. Rhoades.
(b) G. Beadle.
(c) T. Painter.
(d) J. Lenderberg.

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

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

Short Answer 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?

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

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

4. What did Barbara's uncle do for a living?

5. How much was the grant that the Rockefeller Foundation gave to Stadler in the mid-1930's?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the different stages of mitosis?

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

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

5. 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?

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

7. 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?

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

9. What award did Brandeis University give McClintock and what was the award for?

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

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