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A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock Quiz

Evelyn Fox Keller
This Study Guide consists of approximately 25 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of A Feeling for the Organism.

A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock Quiz

Evelyn Fox Keller
This Study Guide consists of approximately 25 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of A Feeling for the Organism.

Take our free A Feeling for the Organism quiz below, with 25 multiple choice questions that help you test your knowledge. Determine which chapters, themes and styles you already know and what you need to study for your upcoming essay, midterm, or final exam. Take the free quiz now!

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

When Barbara's father made an unofficial visit Frank Hanson concerning his daughter, he was currently working for what company as an industrial surgeon? (from Chapter 4, A Career for Women)

2.

The three major concerns of twentieth-century biology have been and still are what? (from Chapter 6, Interlude: A Sketch of the Terrain)

3.

How many scientists are mentioned in the quote by Einstein when he talks about the deep longing that has to be present in scientists? (from Chapter 12, A Feeling for the Organism)

4.

Barbara McClintock sent off a paper entitled "Some Parallels Between Gene Control Systems in Maize and in Bacteria" to where? (from Chapter 11, Transposition Rediscovered)

5.

Where did Harriet Creighton take a teaching job in 1934? (from Chapter 4, A Career for Women)

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