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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 does NOT describe Pauling as seen through Watson's eyes?
(a) Dynamic speaker
(b) Brillant
(c) Poor writer
(d) Admired

2. Which of the following best describes how Watson responded to Pauling's journal articles?
(a) Watson disagreed with Pauling's articles
(b) Watson despised Pauling's articles
(c) They were over Watson's head
(d) Watson was jealous of Pauling

3. What began to interest Crick after his argument with Sir Lawrence?
(a) DNA
(b) Diffraction of X-rays by helical molecules
(c) X-rays of crystallized DNA molecules
(d) Proton Order and diffraction

4. Whose ideas did Rosy's research ignore?
(a) Pauling's
(b) Crick's
(c) Cochran's
(d) Watson's

5. What is crystallography?
(a) Field responsible for crystallizing proteins
(b) Field responsible for creating X-rays of crystals
(c) Field responsible for breaking apart crystallized proteins
(d) Field responsible for making crystals

6. Which of the following describes why Francis's wife was happy for him?
(a) She realized he had had an important breakthrough
(b) She saw that he was becoming good friends with Watson
(c) She knew his long hours would soon be over
(d) She totally understood all of his work

7. Which of the following types of work was Watson enthusiastic about beginning?
(a) Work with crystallography
(b) Work with Crick on X-ray photographs
(c) Work with X-rays of helices
(d) Work with the different possible molecular models of DNA

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

9. What arrangement was did Watson work out with Markham?
(a) To address his need to study crystallography
(b) To help him convince his Fellowship committee to allow him to relocate to Cambridge
(c) To pretend to work with him
(d) To move to Cambridge

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

11. What did Crick move on to work on after told to stop working on the model of DNA?
(a) Nothing, he stopped working altogether
(b) His PhD thesis
(c) Crystallography
(d) Helix structures

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following characters was on the edge of being fired?

2. Which of the following terms best describes how Rosy felt about Watson and Crick's ideas?

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

4. What happens when Watson is uninterested and unexcited?

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

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