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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. Why did Watson have to leave the estate he was staying at over Christmas?
(a) To accept a new job
(b) To return to work
(c) To speak at a meeting in London
(d) To meet Crick to work on their project related to the structure of DNA

2. Which of the following terms describes how Watson felt about working at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge?
(a) Hated it
(b) Disliked it
(c) Love it
(d) Liked it

3. Which of the following did Watson and Crick add to the models which already existed within the Cambridge lab?
(a) Aluminum wire
(b) Tin wire
(c) Copper wire
(d) Steel wire

4. What was Watson's main scientific interest?
(a) RNA
(b) The scientific process
(c) Human relations
(d) DNA

5. Which of the following terms best describes the human dilemma of deciding to work against your colleague or behind their back?
(a) Ethics
(b) Stealing
(c) Realism
(d) Plagerism

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Pauling discover his ?-helix structure?

2. At what university were both Crick and the author working in the opening chapter?

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

4. Which of the following had Pauling partially solved?

5. What happens when Watson is uninterested and unexcited?

Short Essay Questions

1. What realization did Watson come to years after their discovery of the structure of DNA in regards to Rosy?

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

3. Why did Watson and Crick want a new start?

4. What did Francis's solution about the coils do for him professionally?

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

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

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

8. Why did Wilkins come to Naples?

9. How many bases are there in DNA?

10. What was Francis Crick's first real scientific triumph?

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