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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 profession did Barbara's father have?
(a) He was a fisherman.
(b) He was a doctor.
(c) He was a dentist.
(d) He was a horse trainer.

2. In what year was the term "genetics" coined?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1915.

3. What does Evelyn Keller state is the best word to describe Barbara McClintock's stance on life?
(a) Alone.
(b) Seclusion.
(c) Autonomy.
(d) Completed.

4. What was the principle object of interest to cytologists?
(a) Genes.
(b) Chromosomes.
(c) Neutrons.
(d) Cells.

5. One day, why did Barbara climb the side of a building and let herself in a window?
(a) Because she was trying to catch a cat.
(b) Because she had forgot her keys.
(c) Because she wanted to surprise a friend.
(d) Because she was displaying to her students that you can't always follow the norm.

Short Answer Questions

1. Darlington described that in an adaptive hierarchy the chromosomes always come first. What comes second?

2. What was the word or words that Barbara used in the book to describe a plant that was part dominant and part recessive?

3. When it became clear to Barbara that she could no longer stay at Missouri, what did she consider as a possible career?

4. Chromosomes became shorter and thicker during the first stage of what?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What are the different stages of mitosis?

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

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

5. How did Barbara spend her time between the years of 1931 and 1933?

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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