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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did Watson and Crick have to wait for?
(a) Base models to be built
(b) Changes to be made to the backbone
(c) Rosy to leave King's lab
(d) Maurice to provide them with new information

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

5. Which term did Maurice use to describe the DNA structure?
(a) Definitive
(b) Surprising
(c) Beauty
(d) Reflective

6. Which of the following characteristics best describes how Watson viewed the conference in London?
(a) Uneventful
(b) Rigid
(c) Enlightening
(d) Exciting

7. What did Bragg finally allow Watson to do?
(a) Allow him to work with Pauling to refine his model
(b) Move to a new lab where he will continue his work on RNA
(c) Start working on DNA again
(d) Invite Maurice to join Watson on the project

8. Where was Watson going to get the necessary pieces to construct his model?
(a) Machine shop
(b) Pauling's dismantled model
(c) Previous models
(d) Rosy's lab

9. Who arrived at Cambridge as a student?
(a) Chargraff
(b) Rosy
(c) Pauling's son
(d) Sir Lawrence's daughter

10. How did Watson spend the time while he waited for the machine shop to construct the necessary parts?
(a) Making RNA models
(b) Talking with his sister and her beau
(c) Creating bacteria studies
(d) Non-work-related activities

11. Which word best describes Watson's feelings at the idea of working with bases in pairs?
(a) Depressed
(b) Egotistical
(c) Enthusiastic
(d) Downtrodden

12. Who checked Watson and Crick's chemistry on the model?
(a) Todd
(b) Pauling
(c) Maurice
(d) Bragg

13. What did Watson diverge from his study of DNA to study?
(a) Crystallograhy X-rays of RNA
(b) Sexes of bacteria
(c) Models of proteins
(d) Coils of protein helixes

14. How much progress did Crick make?
(a) Significant
(b) None
(c) A little
(d) A lot

15. What had Watson asked of Delbruck?
(a) Not to tell Pauling about the new model
(b) To display the model at Cal-Tech
(c) To be sure and tell Pauling
(d) To spread the word throughout the scientific community

Short Answer Questions

1. What was wrong with Maurice at the meeting in Paris?

2. Why did Crick become annoyed with Watson?

3. What had Rosy surrounded DNA with in the B photograph?

4. Which of the following characters could best be described as the antagonist?

5. What shape was Watson trying to prove TMV was?

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