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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is Watson's interest?
(a) What is a gene?
(b) Where is DNA stored?
(c) What are the crystallized images?
(d) How does DNA crystallize?

2. Which of the following characters attended Rosy's talk?
(a) Watson
(b) Crick
(c) Vand
(d) Sir Lawrence

3. When would Watson and Crick be able to understand the configuration of inorganic ions?
(a) When they understood the final structure
(b) As they added details to the models
(c) When they received the new model components
(d) Before the phosphorus atoms were completed

4. What did Crick help to make when he worked for the government at the beginning of World War II?
(a) Magnetic mines
(b) Bullet proof vests
(c) Medical advances
(d) Ammunition

5. Which of the following did Odile NOT prefer?
(a) Cooking
(b) The Times
(c) Decorating
(d) Vogue

Short Answer Questions

1. What subject did Crick study as an undergraduate?

2. Which of the following types of work was Watson enthusiastic about beginning?

3. Which of the following is the best definition of phages?

4. Which of the following terms best describes the human dilemma of deciding to work against your colleague or behind their back?

5. What is the purpose of the preface in this text?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Watson want to study after hearing Pauling's lecture?

2. How had Watson gotten a place to leave in Clare College?

3. What bothered Crick about his wife's relationship with Elizabeth?

4. What would Watson and Crick have done if Maurice had told them it bothered him that they were working on the structure of DNA?

5. What was the underlying reason behind Sir Lawrence having Watson and Crick stop working on the structure of DNA?

6. What did Crick accuse Sir Lawrence of?

7. How did Watson and Crick get Rosy's measurements at their Cambridge lab?

8. What pattern does Watson's trip to Paris continue to demonstrate?

9. How did Maurice feel about Watson and Crick working on the structure of DNA?

10. When Watson told Maurice about Pauling working on the DNA structure, what was Maurice more concerned with at the immediate moment?

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