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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What characteristically induces many chromosome breaks?

3. In the summer of 1931, an invitation from Lewis Stadler brought Barbara where?

4. When Barbara was taking a geology final when she was a Junior in college, what couldn't she remember?

5. In what year did Cornell appoint its first woman assistant professor in something other than home economics?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What two people did Barbara McClintock invite to Cold Spring Harbor to outline the parallels with her own work and how was their work different from McClintock's?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What are some things that were described in Chapter 5 that Barbara did that "irk the authorities" at Missouri?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe your favorite section or chapter of the book. What people from this section did you like? Were there any individuals you didn't like? Why or why not? What appealed to you about this particular chapter or section? Are there any words of wisdom that you found in this section?

Essay Topic 2

Describe how Barbara McClintock broke free "of the hidden constraints of tacit assumptions" and allowed "the results of [her] experiments to speak for themselves."

Essay Topic 3

Explain Rudolf Arnheim's words he wrote in Art and Visual Perception saying, "the realm of the unconscious could never enter our experience without the reflection of perceivable things." How does this quote relate to the life of Barbara McClintock?

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