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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 best describes how Watson and Crick felt after Rosy and Maurice left?
(a) Excited about continuing
(b) More productive
(c) The same as they had felt before they came to review the model
(d) Despondent
2. Who convinced Bragg that Watson and Crick should not be working on the problem of the structure of DNA?
(a) Bragg's boss
(b) Crick's boss
(c) Rosy's boss
(d) Maurice's boss
3. Which of the following is the best definition of the term abated?
(a) Increased
(b) Fell off
(c) Rose
(d) Ended
4. Which of the following was NOT a reason that Watson was disheartened with Naples?
(a) Biochemistry was still uninteresting
(b) He knew no one there
(c) There was no heating
(d) Weather was cold
5. Which of the following characters wrote a paper describing his idea for the helix theory?
(a) Crick
(b) Vand
(c) Sir Lawrence
(d) Watson
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following terms describes how Watson felt about working at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge?
2. Which of the following is the best term for chains of nucleotides?
3. Where did Watson go for Christmas?
4. What had Watson neglected to do at Rosy's lecture?
5. How does DNA carry information?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why was Pauling not able to speak at the scientific conference in London?
2. How did Watson and Crick get Rosy's measurements at their Cambridge lab?
3. How did Maurice feel about Watson and Crick working on the structure of DNA?
4. How did Francis feel about Watson's work with bacteria?
5. What did Watson and Crick find about the bonds that held together DNA?
6. What was the force that continued to drive Watson?
7. What did Watson hope to apply Pauling's method to?
8. What happened when Watson went to work trying to apply his pairs theory to the new base structures?
9. When Watson told Maurice about Pauling working on the DNA structure, what was Maurice more concerned with at the immediate moment?
10. What has Watson done on a social aspect while trying to make X-ray photographs?
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