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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following terms describes how Watson felt about working at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge?
(a) Love it
(b) Liked it
(c) Hated it
(d) Disliked it

2. What fantasy did Watson have for how he would become involved in his work?
(a) Watson would transfer his postgraduate fellowship to Wilkins
(b) Watson would develop a new biochemistry technique
(c) Watson would show Wilkins his crystallized images
(d) Wilkins would become his sister's suitor

3. Which of the following had happened which affected Watson's ability to relocate during his fellowship?
(a) His fellowship had run out of money
(b) Transfers were not allowed under his fellowship agreement
(c) A new chairman was named
(d) The person he wanted to switch to work with rejected his plan

4. Which of the following is the best synonym for assuaged as it is used in the following sentence? Watson's conscious was somewhat assuaged, when Herman revealed that he was going through a divorce.
(a) Alleviated
(b) Modified
(c) Lulled
(d) Sweetened

5. Which of the following was a new idea about the life of a scientist to Watson at the end of chapter five?
(a) Social life
(b) Personality conflicts
(c) Intellectual life
(d) Structure of DNA

Short Answer Questions

1. How many types of nucleotides are in DNA?

2. Which of the following terms best describes the human dilemma of deciding to work against your colleague or behind their back?

3. Which of the following characters was on the edge of being fired?

4. What is crystallography?

5. Which of the following best describes how Watson responded to Pauling's journal articles?

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