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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the fellowship board want him to speak?
(a) Copenhagen
(b) London
(c) Stockholm
(d) United States

2. What did Crick help to make when he worked for the government at the beginning of World War II?
(a) Bullet proof vests
(b) Medical advances
(c) Magnetic mines
(d) Ammunition

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

4. When would Watson and Crick be able to understand the configuration of inorganic ions?
(a) When they received the new model components
(b) As they added details to the models
(c) When they understood the final structure
(d) Before the phosphorus atoms were completed

5. What is the purpose of the preface in this text?
(a) To set the purpose and scope
(b) To outline the main events of the book
(c) To introduce the characters
(d) To define what type of book it is

6. Which of the following terms best describes how the meeting went with Rosy, Maurice, Watson and Crick?
(a) Supportive
(b) Realistically
(c) Exciting
(d) Disappointing

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

8. Which of the following characters didn't believe that helices were the answer to the structure of DNA?
(a) Watson
(b) Rosy
(c) Maurice
(d) Crick

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

10. Why couldn't Sir Lawrence remove Crick from the lab?
(a) Crick was pursuing his PhD at Cambridge and couldn't be fired
(b) Crick had proof that Sir Lawrence stole from him
(c) Sir Lawrence did not have the authority to remove Crick
(d) Crick had more friends in the lab than Sir Lawrence

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

12. What did Watson study after told to stop working on the model of DNA?
(a) Biochemistry
(b) His PhD thesis
(c) Biology
(d) Chemistry

13. Which of the following best describes this type of novel?
(a) Unauthorized biography
(b) Biography
(c) Unauthorized autobiography
(d) Autobiography

14. Which of the following is the best synonym for pall as used in the following sentence: Rosy's attitude left a pall on the evening.
(a) Diminish
(b) Dark cloud
(c) Fade
(d) Go sour

15. What did Wilkin's x-rays show?
(a) Crystallized DNA
(b) Bone degradation
(c) Biological proof that DNA existed
(d) Crystals taken from a mine

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Crick and Watson have in common?

2. Why did Watson have to leave the estate he was staying at over Christmas?

3. What fantasy did Watson have for how he would become involved in his work?

4. Which of the following had Pauling partially solved?

5. How does DNA carry information?

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