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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) The same as they had felt before they came to review the model
(c) More productive
(d) Despondent

2. Which of the following terms best describes how Watson felt about chemistry BEFORE meeting Wilkins?
(a) Depressed
(b) Lukewarm
(c) Excited
(d) Unmoved

3. Which of the following does NOT describe Pauling as seen through Watson's eyes?
(a) Admired
(b) Dynamic speaker
(c) Brillant
(d) Poor writer

4. Which of the following is the best synonym for pall as used in the following sentence: Rosy's attitude left a pall on the evening.
(a) Go sour
(b) Fade
(c) Dark cloud
(d) Diminish

5. Why did Watson and Crick purchase a copy of Pauling's book on chemical bonding?
(a) It had information in it about Pauling's assistant Rosy
(b) It had a foreward written by Dorothy Hodgkin, a leading researcher into crystallography
(c) It had a model of DNA in it
(d) It contained information they needed to build a model of DNA

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Watson think that most of the scientific community felt about DNA?

2. What did Crick and Watson have in common?

3. How much less money was his new fellowship offer for?

4. What happens when Watson is uninterested and unexcited?

5. Which of the following people was the solution to Watson being able to study crystallography?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Francis feel about Watson's work with bacteria?

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

3. If Crick had been fired by Sir Lawrence, why might he have found it difficult to find a new job?

4. What did Crick accuse Sir Lawrence of?

5. What did Crick tell Watson they had found?

6. What did Watson hope to apply Pauling's method to?

7. Why were the crystallized images important?

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

9. How did Delbruck feel about Watson's TMV discovery and the comparison Watson made between Crick and Pauling?

10. What did Watson and Crick find about the bonds that held together DNA?

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