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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who identified the major fundamental flaw in Linus Pauling's model of DNA?
(a) Sir Lawrence
(b) Rosy
(c) Watson
(d) Pauling's father

5. Which of the following best describes how Watson felt upon realizing that Pauling's model was flawed?
(a) Dejected
(b) Enthusiastic
(c) Surprised
(d) Relieved

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

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

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

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

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

11. Which of the following words best describes how the authors of the chemistry book had chosen the structures of the bases?
(a) Crystallographic photographics
(b) Arbitrarily
(c) Scientific models
(d) After much indepth research

12. Who offered Watson a job at Cal-Tech?
(a) Pauling
(b) Sir Lawrence
(c) Chargaff
(d) Max Delbruck

13. What did Watson believe caused the medical condition from which he was suffering?
(a) Too much work
(b) Pressure from his PhD program
(c) Spicy food
(d) Worry over DNA

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much progress did Crick make?

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

3. What did Watson and Crick hope in regards to this new structure of DNA?

4. Which describes how Rosy seemed when Watson went to talk to her at King's lab about Pauling's faulty model?

5. Which of the following was the problem with Pauling's model?

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