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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Watson hope to learn more about as he studies TMV?
(a) RNA
(b) X-rays
(c) Crystallography
(d) DNA

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

3. Which of the following subjects did Watson avoid during his graduate work?
(a) Biology
(b) Chemisty
(c) Genetics
(d) Biochemistry

4. Where did Watson and Crick meet Chargaff?
(a) Stockholm
(b) They never met
(c) United States
(d) Cambridge

5. Who offered Watson a job at Cal-Tech?
(a) Max Delbruck
(b) Sir Lawrence
(c) Pauling
(d) Chargaff

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following had Pauling partially solved?

2. Who is expected to come speak at a conference at the end of chapter sixteen?

3. Which of the following is the best definition for relations as used in the following sentence: His biggest problem, though, was relations with Rosy, and he had to consider firing her.

4. Whose ideas did Rosy's research ignore?

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

(see the answer key)

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