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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Capacity to Be Alone.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year did Barbara McClintock graduate from Cornell?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1932.

2. What was the name of the science that was born in T. H. Morgan's lab?
(a) Radiation genetics.
(b) Cytogenetics.
(c) Botony.
(d) Mycogenetics

3. How old was Barbara when her name was changed to Barbara?
(a) Three years old.
(b) Three months old.
(c) Four years old.
(d) Four months old.

4. In what year was Barbara McClintock elected Vice President of the Genetics Society of America?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1925.

5. In what year did Barbara McClintock receive her Ph.D.?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1927.
(d) 1930.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Evelyn Keller state is the best word to describe Barbara McClintock's stance on life?

3. What was the term that McClintock phrased that meant a capacity to change positions?

4. In what year was the first woman admitted to Cornell University?

5. In what year was Barbara McClintock born?

(see the answer key)

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