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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. How did Cochran and Crick explain X-ray diffraction by helical molecules?
(a) Models
(b) Equations
(c) Detailed drawings
(d) Pictures

2. Which of the following events interrupted Crick's interest in DNA?
(a) Personal health issue
(b) Marriage
(c) Conflict in the lab
(d) Death in his family

3. Which of the following was NOT a reason that Watson was disheartened with Naples?
(a) He knew no one there
(b) There was no heating
(c) Biochemistry was still uninteresting
(d) Weather was cold

4. What did Wilkin's x-rays show?
(a) Biological proof that DNA existed
(b) Bone degradation
(c) Crystals taken from a mine
(d) Crystallized DNA

5. Which of the following types of work was Watson enthusiastic about beginning?
(a) Work with X-rays of helices
(b) Work with crystallography
(c) Work with Crick on X-ray photographs
(d) Work with the different possible molecular models of DNA

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Watson neglected to do at Rosy's lecture?

2. In what language were many of the lectures given that Watson attended?

3. Which of the following characters did Crick discuss his problems with the helix theory with?

4. What began to interest Crick after his argument with Sir Lawrence?

5. Which of the following best describes this type of novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Crick as seen through Watson's eyes.

2. Who typed Watson and Crick's paper?

3. What does Watson's new informaiton about DNA lead to him to question?

4. What was Watson's breakthrough an implication for?

5. In what way might this book be considered an apology for the winning of the Nobel Prize by Watson and Crick?

6. What does Watson do that Crick is unhappy with?

7. Why did Watson and Crick think that the DNA structure was more complicated than the structure discovered by Pauling?

8. What has Watson done on a social aspect while trying to make X-ray photographs?

9. How was Odile going to help Watson with his problem with eating the food at the local restaurants?

10. In the forward, Bragg describes the following story as what kind?

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