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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, A Feeling for the Organism.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what year did Evelyn Witkin come to Cold Spring Harbor?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1951.

3. In 1936, the University of Missouri offered Barbara what kind of position?
(a) Professor.
(b) Assistant Graduate Professor.
(c) Graduate Work Professor.
(d) Assistant Professor.

4. In the beginning of Chapter 9, Evelyn Keller writes about Barbara giving her talk at the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium and that it was met with what?
(a) Grateful applause.
(b) Stony silence.
(c) Stunned awkwardness.
(d) Loud cheers.

5. What did Barbara's uncle do for a living?
(a) He was a farmer.
(b) He was a baker.
(c) He was a scientist.
(d) He was a fish dealer.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Barbara's efforts were in vain to explain her discoveries she didn't talk except for the annual reports in what?

2. Who said of Barbara that "she was able to convey it to someone who was completely outside the field. She was able to make it real?"

3. In 1933, Barbara received a Guggenheim Fellowship to go where?

4. The three major concerns of twentieth-century biology have been and still are what?

5. What was Demerec summing up by the words, "Ten years ago they were visualized as fixed units with precise boundaries?"

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