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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Rosy feel about the new model?
(a) Refuted
(b) Debated
(c) Supported
(d) Criticized

2. How did Crick feel about Watson's work on bacteria reproduction?
(a) Uninterested
(b) Interested
(c) Surprised
(d) Supportive

3. Who did Pauling give copies of his manuscript which contained his new model of DNA?
(a) Peter and Bragg
(b) Rosy and Bragg
(c) Watson and Crick
(d) Rosy and Maurice

4. What did Watson continue to believe the problem was?
(a) Acid level
(b) Backbone
(c) Chain number
(d) Bases

5. Where did Watson see Chargaff for the second time but they did not speak?
(a) London at a conference with Pauling
(b) Cambridge at the lab
(c) In Stockholm at a conference on crystallography
(d) International Biochemical Congress in Paris

6. What had the Cavendish lab recently discovered?
(a) A model of DNA and RNA
(b) The structure of RNA
(c) A new kind of X-ray tube
(d) The structure of DNA

7. Whom did Watson compare Crick to when talking to Delbruck?
(a) Sir Lawrence
(b) Pauling
(c) Maurice
(d) Rosy

8. Why did Crick become annoyed with Watson?
(a) Because he wouldn't share the responsibility
(b) Because he refused to consider a 3 chain model
(c) Because he wasn't spending all of his time on DNA
(d) Because he wasn't concerned about his sister's love life

9. Which of the following was why Pauling never arrived in London?
(a) Health issues
(b) Political views
(c) Incomplete travel records
(d) Breakthrough in his projects

10. Who told Pauling about the double helix structure?
(a) Maurice
(b) Watson
(c) Delbruck
(d) Crick

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

12. What did Todd say about the sugar-phosphate backbone chemistry in the model?
(a) It was surprising
(b) It needed to be fixed slightly
(c) It was correct
(d) It was incorrect

13. Who confirmed Watson's finding that TMV was indeed a helix?
(a) Pauling
(b) Rosy
(c) Maurice
(d) Crick

14. What happened when King's lab began comparing their experimental results to the double helix structure?
(a) They debated it's accuracy
(b) They refuted the model
(c) They found a major flaw
(d) They supported the model

15. How does Watson end his book?
(a) By sharing the credit in the discovery of the structure of DNA with Crick
(b) By taking all of the credit in the discovery of the structure of DNA
(c) By reporting the importance of his discovery
(d) By discussing what the various people involved in the discovery of the structure of DNA are doing at the time of the writing

Short Answer Questions

1. How much progress did Crick make?

2. What did Watson believe caused the medical condition from which he was suffering?

3. Where did Watson and Crick meet Chargaff?

4. What was Crick unable to concentrate on which he was supposed to be working on?

5. Who arrived at Cambridge as a student?

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