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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which of the following subjects was Herman uninterested in?
(a) Biochemistry
(b) Chemistry
(c) Biology
(d) Genetics

4. How did Watson think that most of the scientific community felt about DNA?
(a) It was unimportant
(b) It was the next great breakthrough
(c) It was an ongoing project for most of them
(d) It was already solved

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following events interrupted Crick's interest in DNA?

2. Who first excited Watson about using x-rays to study DNA?

3. What did Watson study after told to stop working on the model of DNA?

4. Which of the following characteristics best describes how Watson viewed the conference in London?

5. What did Crick help to make when he worked for the government at the beginning of World War II?

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