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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Transposition.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Both of the grandparents on Barbara's mother side could be traced back to what?
(a) The Mayflower.
(b) The Civil War.
(c) The Boston Tea Party.
(d) The Speedwell.

2. Who was considered to be the severest critic in the field of genetics during Barbara's time in the field?
(a) Barbara McClintock.
(b) Stephen Jay Gould.
(c) Alfred Sturtevant.
(d) Richard B. Goldschmidt.

3. In A Short History of Genetics, the decade preceding World War II was described as what decade of classical genetics?
(a) The newborn decade.
(b) The discovery decade.
(c) The evolving decade.
(d) The climactic decade.

4. How does an anatomist see chromosomes?
(a) As a property of the organism.
(b) Through a math formula.
(c) As very small rod-shaped bodies possibly present in all cells.
(d) As representing a chemical structure and a genetic code.

5. Who asked Barbara how she could have worked "for two years without knowing what was going to come out?"
(a) Evelyn Witkin.
(b) Milislav Demerec.
(c) Marcus Rhoades.
(d) George Beadle.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Barbara McClintock elected Vice President of the Genetics Society of America?

2. In what year was the Recent Advances in Cytology published?

3. What did Barbara's sister, Marjorie, become?

4. Many mutations that were happening in the maize had never been seen before, and some of these involved gross changes in what?

5. How long did it take for Barbara to get from her first clues to her final interpretation dealing with transposition?

(see the answer key)

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