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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What was Watson continually thinking about as he went to films in regards to progress on DNA model?
(a) Acids
(b) Bases
(c) Number of chains
(d) Building materials

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

6. Who has developed a structure of DNA in chapter twenty-one?
(a) Rosy
(b) Linus Pauling
(c) Crick
(d) Watson

7. Which describes how Rosy seemed when Watson went to talk to her at King's lab about Pauling's faulty model?
(a) Excitied
(b) Supportive
(c) Resigned
(d) Confrontational

8. What was Maurice going to return to Watson?
(a) Models
(b) Molds
(c) Wire
(d) Paper on DNA

9. How did Maurice respond to all of the arguments that went into constructing the DNA model?
(a) Accepted
(b) Debated
(c) Criticized
(d) Refuted

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

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

12. 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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Watson's sister get married?

2. How did Watson feel about Rosy's reaction to the new model?

3. Who is expected to come speak at a conference at the end of chapter sixteen?

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

5. Which term did Maurice use to describe the DNA structure?

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