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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Maurice feel after hearing Rosy's presentation?
(a) Reborn
(b) Pleased
(c) Deflated
(d) Angered

2. Whose ideas did Rosy's research ignore?
(a) Crick's
(b) Cochran's
(c) Pauling's
(d) Watson's

3. What happens when Watson is uninterested and unexcited?
(a) He looks for a woman to keep him company
(b) He concentrates on the wrong things
(c) He drinks
(d) He stops working

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

5. Who convinced Bragg that Watson and Crick should not be working on the problem of the structure of DNA?
(a) Bragg's boss
(b) Crick's boss
(c) Rosy's boss
(d) Maurice's boss

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was Senator McCarthy investigating?

2. Which of the following is Watson's interest?

3. Which of the following terms describes how Watson felt about working at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge?

4. What did Crick move on to work on after told to stop working on the model of DNA?

5. Which of the following describes how Bragg felt about Crick's behavior and attitude?

(see the answer key)

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