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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Interlude: A Sketch of the Terrain.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the word that describes a chromosome that has two centromeres?
(a) Digenetic.
(b) Dichromosomic.
(c) Dicentromeric.
(d) Dicentric.

2. While at the University of Missouri, Barbara was given little encouragement and even another woman was promoted to the rank of associate professor of zoology. What was the woman's name?
(a) Harriet Guthrie.
(b) Harriet Creighton.
(c) Mary Jane Guthrie.
(d) Mary Jane Creighton.

3. Who said, "I've known a lot of famous scientists. But the only one I thought really was a genius was McClintock"?
(a) George Beadle.
(b) Marcus Rhoades.
(c) Charles Burnham.
(d) Rollins Emerson.

4. In what year was the First Oxford Chromosome Conference held?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1949.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first name of Barbara's mother?

2. In what year did Richard B. Goldschmidt die?

3. When Barbara's father made an unofficial visit Frank Hanson concerning his daughter, he was currently working for what company as an industrial surgeon?

4. Both of the grandparents on Barbara's mother side could be traced back to what?

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

(see the answer key)

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