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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. What does Evelyn Keller state is the best word to describe Barbara McClintock's stance on life?
(a) Completed.
(b) Alone.
(c) Autonomy.
(d) Seclusion.

2. In what year was Barbara McClintock born?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1904.

3. In Chapter 1, it is mentioned that immune systems were studied in what animal?
(a) Mice.
(b) Rabbits.
(c) Rats.
(d) Dogs.

4. When McClintock speaks about having no chance of being promoted she states that she was excluded from what?
(a) Faculty meetings.
(b) Decisions about the department.
(c) Class time with other professors.
(d) Weekend get-togethers.

5. Where are chromosomes found?
(a) In a cell's nucleolus.
(b) On a cell's centrosome.
(c) In a cell's spindle.
(d) In a cell's nucleous.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of work did Barbara's mother do contribute and make money?

2. The subject of cytogenetics is about the relationship between the chromosomes and what?

3. In A Short History of Genetics, the decade preceding World War II was described as what decade of classical genetics?

4. Who said, "For us, neither the chemical code, nor the linkage map of the chromosome, nor the genes embodied in it, are enough"?

5. In what year did McClintock and her student, Harriet Creighton, publish a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Barbara's temperament as a child and what happened because of it.

2. What happened with Sara Handy and Thomas McClintock after Thomas graduated from Boston University Medical school?

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

4. When C.D. Darlington was describing the views of colleagues in different types of sciences, which type of scientist does he compare to the naturalist and how does a naturalist see chromosomes?

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

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

7. In the mid-1930's and when she left Missouri what had she considered doing because of her jobless status?

8. Why was the year 1944 a crucial year for Barbara McClintock and the history of genetics?

9. What did Barbara do when she heard of people that were being hired as associate professors that didn't have the same credentials as herself, yet she remained an assistant professor?

10. What are some things that were described in Chapter 5 that Barbara did that "irk the authorities" at Missouri?

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