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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had Watson construction which was checked against Rosy's measurements?
(a) Completed model
(b) Base
(c) Chain
(d) Backbone

2. How did Pauling feel about Watson and Crick's model?
(a) Depressed
(b) Argumentative
(c) Thrilled
(d) Angered

3. When Watson constructed models of the bases what was the same about a pair?
(a) Appearance
(b) Number
(c) Size
(d) Shape

4. Whose work did Crick believe was a key to understanding DNA?
(a) Chargraff's work
(b) Rosy's work
(c) Watson's work
(d) Pauling's work

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

6. Why didn't Watson want to continue working after lunch?
(a) He was excitied by his breakthrough
(b) His new idea about base structures didn't work
(c) He needed time to think
(d) His sister needed him

7. Who did Watson go to tell about Rosy's B photograph?
(a) Bragg and Crick
(b) Pauling and Crick
(c) Crick and Max
(d) Bragg and Max

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

9. Which of the following terms best describes the events at the meeting in Paris?
(a) Revealing
(b) Surprising
(c) Uneventful
(d) Problem solving

10. What shape was Watson trying to prove TMV was?
(a) Helical
(b) Octagonal
(c) Hexical
(d) Cylindrical

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

12. Who was taken with Watson's sister?
(a) Bertrand Fourcade
(b) Francis
(c) Sir Lawrence
(d) Pauling

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

14. Where had Watson moved?
(a) Clare College
(b) Portugal Place
(c) Fish place
(d) Cambridge College

15. How long did Rosy keep working on scientific discoveries?
(a) She stopped right after the model was created
(b) She was fired by Maurice and never got another job in the field
(c) She stopped when Watson and Crick were published
(d) Until right before her death

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Watson hope to learn more about as he studies TMV?

2. What did Watson and Crick do when the bases were finished?

3. What event diffused the tension and heat between Rosy and Watson?

4. What was the fundamental flaw in Linus Pauling's model of DNA?

5. Which word best describes Watson's feelings at the idea of working with bases in pairs?

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