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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. In 1936, the University of Missouri offered Barbara what kind of position?

2. Barbara McClintock worked in Cold Spring Harbor since what year?

3. Who wrote the Recent Advances in Cytology?

4. In what year was Barbara McClintock born?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What are the different stages of mitosis?

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

5. What are the three stages of prophase in meiosis?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the significance of Barbara McClintock to the world of science. Describe McClintock's importance to women in science. How did individuals benefit from knowing and working with McClintock?

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

Describe Sara McClintock (Barbara's mother). What struggles did Sara McClintock have to face while raising her family? Compare and contrast Sara McClintock and her daughter, Barbara McClintock.

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