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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. 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 was displaying to her students that you can't always follow the norm.
(c) Because she wanted to surprise a friend.
(d) Because she had forgot her keys.

2. In what year did Cornell appoint its first woman assistant professor in something other than home economics?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1925.

3. Barbara McClintock worked in Cold Spring Harbor since what year?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1934.

4. The three major concerns of twentieth-century biology have been and still are what?
(a) Genes, development, and evolution.
(b) Heredity, development, and transposition.
(c) Heredity, chromosomes, and evolution.
(d) Heredity, development, and evolution.

5. What were the names of the flies that were used in studying genetics?
(a) Musca.
(b) Diptera.
(c) Anopheles.
(d) Drosophilia.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does a chemist see chromosomes?

2. In what year was Barbara McClintock elected Vice President of the Genetics Society of America?

3. 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?

4. Who was Dean of Liberal Arts at Missouri in 1940?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In 1931, why did Barbara start to feel like it was time to leave Cornell?

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

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

5. What are the different stages of mitosis?

6. Who was the person that came to Cornell to get his PhD in genetics, why did he come to Cornell, and what was his previous experience?

7. What did T.H. Morgan tell a disappointed reader who confronted him about his book, Embryology and Genetics?

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

9. 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?

10. Why was the year 1944 a crucial year for Barbara McClintock and the history of genetics?

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