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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) Debated
(b) Criticized
(c) Refuted
(d) Supported

2. Which of the following best describes Maurice and Rosy's working relationship?
(a) Symbiotic
(b) Difficult
(c) Collegial
(d) Supportive

3. Which of the following characters could best be described as the antagonist?
(a) Maurice
(b) Rosy
(c) Crick
(d) Watson

4. What medical condition did Watson seem to think he had?
(a) Migraines
(b) Ulcer
(c) Heart condition
(d) Reflux

5. The base pairs Watson had developed after lunch were the same as the sets of bases that appeared whose work?
(a) Rosy's work
(b) Chargraff's work
(c) Maurice's work
(d) Pauling's work

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

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

8. What event diffused the tension and heat between Rosy and Watson?
(a) Rosy assaulting Watson
(b) Rosy tearing up Pauling's work
(c) Maurice entering the lab
(d) Watson walking out of the lab

9. What was the problem with the idea that the bases were pairs?
(a) There were an odd number of bases
(b) The sides weren't identical
(c) Pairing eliminated the idea of 3 chains
(d) The bases weren't all the same sides

10. Why couldn't Watson concentrate on this thesis?
(a) Distracted by Rosy's animosty
(b) Excitement at attending a new lecture
(c) Excitement about the base pairs
(d) Distracted by Watson's social life

11. Where had Watson gotten the structures for the bases?
(a) Out of a chemistry book
(b) From Watson's own research into bacteria
(c) From Pauling's research
(d) From Rosy's photographs

12. What did Watson and Crick hope in regards to this new structure of DNA?
(a) They hoped to publish it before Pauling
(b) They hoped Pauling was wrong
(c) They hoped to expand on his knowledge
(d) They hoped to develop the model based on his structure

13. Which of the following was the problem with Pauling's model?
(a) DNA base was not acidic
(b) DNA base was now an acid
(c) DNA acid was not acidic
(d) DNA acid was too acidic

14. What does TMV stand for?
(a) Tobacco Mosaic Virus
(b) Thrombosis Making Virus
(c) Tobacco Motive Virus
(d) Tomal Missing Virus

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When would Watson go to Cal-Tech?

2. Which of the following words best describes how the authors of the chemistry book had chosen the structures of the bases?

3. Who offered Watson a job at Cal-Tech?

4. Who identified the major fundamental flaw in Linus Pauling's model of DNA?

5. What had Watson construction which was checked against Rosy's measurements?

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