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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following terms best describes how Rosy felt about Watson and Crick's ideas?
(a) Worthless
(b) Worthwhile
(c) Intriguing
(d) Exciting

2. In what year did the author meet Crick?
(a) 1963
(b) 1928
(c) 1945
(d) 1951

3. Where did the Fellowship Board indicate Watson could transfer?
(a) Crystallography lab in Cambridge
(b) Crystallography in Stockhom
(c) Biochemistry with Markham
(d) Cell physiology lab in Stockholm

4. Why did Watson and Crick purchase a copy of Pauling's book on chemical bonding?
(a) It had information in it about Pauling's assistant Rosy
(b) It had a foreward written by Dorothy Hodgkin, a leading researcher into crystallography
(c) It contained information they needed to build a model of DNA
(d) It had a model of DNA in it

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following characters was already working on the problem of DNA in London with Crick?

2. With whom did Watson want to work in Cambridge?

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

4. What did Crick and Watson have in common?

5. What is crystallography?

(see the answer key)

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