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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was the Recent Advances in Cytology published?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1931.

2. What is the word that is used to describe the joining of fragments that have broken off a chromosome?
(a) Fuse.
(b) Conjoin.
(c) Genderate.
(d) Anneal.

3. What did the Dean at the University of Missouri tell Barbara would happen if something happened to Stadler?
(a) That she could take the Dean's place after he retired.
(b) That Stadler would try to get her to leave.
(c) That they would promote her to Stadler's job.
(d) That they would have to fire her.

4. What characteristically induces many chromosome breaks?
(a) Sonic booms.
(b) Nuclear division.
(c) X Rays.
(d) Nuclear power.

5. Where did Harriet Creighton take a teaching job in 1934?
(a) Connecticut College for Women.
(b) University of Missouri.
(c) Yale.
(d) Cornell.

Short Answer Questions

1. An experimental breeder can tell what a chromosomes is like from doing what?

2. What was the name of T.H. Morgan's single laboratory at Columbia University?

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

4. Who described Barbara as having a "green thumb" because everything she did turned into something big?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. An excerpt from Frank Hanson's informal notes about Barbara McClintock are found in Chapter 4. How does Hanson describe Barbara's physical appearance?

2. What happened to Barbara a little more than a year after her brother, Tom, was born?

3. What were the fundamental questions of genetics during the time of the early 1930s?

4. What is the final stage of mitosis and what happens during this phase?

5. When Barbara went to Germany because of her Guggenheim Fellowship, why did she describe it later as a "very, very traumatic" experience?

6. Who was Lewis Stadler and why did he want Barbara as a colleague?

7. Why did Barbara adamantly reject female conventions and why was she not trying to just be "more boy than girl"?

8. What did James A. Peters say about the paper that Harriet Creighton and Barbara McClintock wrote?

9. How did Barbara spend her time between the years of 1931 and 1933?

10. What happened when Barbara signed up for a large overload of classes at Cornell and why did she do it?

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