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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, A Career for Women.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Barbara plants.
(b) Ring chromosome plants.
(c) McClintock corn.
(d) Transfusion treat.

2. What did Barbara McClintock receive her PhD in?
(a) Botany.
(b) Genetics.
(c) Zoology.
(d) Cytology.

3. What did Stadler and McClintock share a keen interest in concerning maize?
(a) The length of its chromosomes.
(b) The length of its generations.
(c) Its ease of study.
(d) Its genetic composition.

4. What does Evelyn Keller state is the best word to describe Barbara McClintock's stance on life?
(a) Completed.
(b) Autonomy.
(c) Alone.
(d) Seclusion.

5. The differences that were studied in fruit flies had to do with their eye color and what else?
(a) Wing shape.
(b) Wing color.
(c) Leg thickness.
(d) Eye shape.

Short Answer Questions

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?

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

3. What does NOR stand for?

4. In what year was the term "genetics" coined?

5. In what year did McClintock complete her graduate work?

(see the answer key)

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