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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Fade
(c) Dark cloud
(d) Go sour

2. On what topic was Rosy's talk?
(a) X-ray diffraction by helical molecules
(b) Crystallographic research into DNA
(c) X-ray crystallographic research into helical molecules
(d) X-ray diffraction of crystallographic molecules

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

4. How did Cochran and Crick explain X-ray diffraction by helical molecules?
(a) Models
(b) Equations
(c) Pictures
(d) Detailed drawings

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

6. Which of the following characters did Crick discuss his problems with the helix theory with?
(a) Watson
(b) Sir Lawrence
(c) Vand
(d) Cochran

7. How many people does the preface indicate were involved in the discovery of the structure of DNA?
(a) 2
(b) 5
(c) 7
(d) 4

8. Where did Watson go for Christmas?
(a) Carradale
(b) Cambridge
(c) London
(d) Stockholm

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

10. Who else did Watson invite to his friend's parents for Christmas?
(a) Sister
(b) Sister
(c) Bragg
(d) Rosy

11. Which of the following terms best describes the human dilemma of deciding to work against your colleague or behind their back?
(a) Realism
(b) Plagerism
(c) Ethics
(d) Stealing

12. Which of the following people wrote the forward?
(a) Francis Crick
(b) James Watson
(c) Sir Lawrence Bragg
(d) Max Perutz

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

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

15. Which of the following characters was on the edge of being fired?
(a) Franklin
(b) Crick
(c) Watson
(d) Pauling

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following terms best describes how Watson felt about chemistry BEFORE meeting Wilkins?

2. What had Watson neglected to do at Rosy's lecture?

3. Who convinced Bragg that Watson and Crick should not be working on the problem of the structure of DNA?

4. Which of the following describes why Francis's wife was happy for him?

5. What specifically was wrong with Watson and Crick's model so that it disagreed with Rosy's research?

(see the answer keys)

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