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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following terms best describes how the English scientists felt about the United States refusing to allow Pauling to travel to London to speak at the conference?
(a) Appalled
(b) Protested
(c) Total agreement
(d) Surprised

2. How much less money was his new fellowship offer for?
(a) $500
(b) No less money
(c) $1,000
(d) $2,000

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

4. What was the fundamental flaw in Linus Pauling's model of DNA?
(a) He could not identify the number of helixes
(b) He relayed that there were four helixes
(c) The phosphate molecules were not ionized
(d) The phosphate molecules were ionized

5. Where was Pauling's lab?
(a) New Jersey
(b) London
(c) Pasadena
(d) Stockholm

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was Senator McCarthy investigating?

2. How did Pauling discover his ?-helix structure?

3. Which of the following best describes how Watson felt upon realizing that Pauling's model was flawed?

4. What did Crick and Watson have in common?

5. What happened to Watson's fellowship?

(see the answer key)

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