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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. What did Barbara McClintock receive her PhD in?
(a) Genetics.
(b) Zoology.
(c) Cytology.
(d) Botany.

2. What was the name of the book that was published by Morgan, Sturtevant, Muller, and Bridges?
(a) Mendelian Segregation.
(b) Medelian Mode of Inheritance.
(c) The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity.
(d) The Theory of Mendelian Heredity.

3. What instrument did Barbara play in a jazz improvisation group?
(a) Piano.
(b) Tenor banjo.
(c) Bass guitar.
(d) Saxaphone.

4. Where did Harriet Creighton take a teaching job in 1934?
(a) Cornell.
(b) Connecticut College for Women.
(c) University of Missouri.
(d) Yale.

5. In 1944, a paper was published demonstrating that what provided the material basis for inheritance?
(a) DNA.
(b) Fruit flies.
(c) Maize studies.
(d) Chromosomes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the names of the flies that were used in studying genetics?

2. In what year was the Recent Advances in Cytology published?

3. In the fall of what year did Evelyn Keller drive out to Cold Spring Harbor to speak with Barbara McClintock?

4. In what year was the first woman admitted to Cornell University?

5. Who discovered the enormous salivary chromosomes of Drosophila?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Barbara adamantly reject female conventions and why was she not trying to just be "more boy than girl"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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