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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 it became clear to Barbara that she could no longer stay at Missouri, what did she consider as a possible career?
(a) Meteorology.
(b) Geography.
(c) Geology.
(d) Botony.

2. A problem that had caught Barbara's fancy was a small body on the end of what chromosome?
(a) Chromosome 6.
(b) Chromosome 2.
(c) Chromosome 9.
(d) Chromosome 3.

3. Who said, "She is sore at the world because of her conviction that she would have a much freer scientific opportunity if she were a man"?
(a) Warren Weaver.
(b) Harriet Creighton.
(c) Marcus Rhoades.
(d) T.H. Morgan.

4. In the summer of 1931, an invitation from Lewis Stadler brought Barbara where?
(a) The University of Missouri.
(b) Missouri State University.
(c) The University of Central Missouri.
(d) Webster University.

5. Many mutations that were happening in the maize had never been seen before, and some of these involved gross changes in what?
(a) The generation length.
(b) The nucleolus in the cells of the corn.
(c) The productivity of the corn itself.
(d) The arrangement of the chromosomes.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was the name of T.H. Morgan's single laboratory at Columbia University?

4. In what year did McClintock and her student, Harriet Creighton, publish a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was the subject of the paper that Harriet Creighton and Barbara McClintock wrote in 1931?

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

4. 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?

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

6. Why was it described in the book that Barbara was born into the role of maverick and pioneer?

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

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

9. What happened the time that Barbara was out playing basketball or volleyball in the neighborhood and a woman called her over to her house?

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

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