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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. On what topic was Rosy's talk?
(a) X-ray diffraction by helical molecules
(b) X-ray crystallographic research into helical molecules
(c) Crystallographic research into DNA
(d) X-ray diffraction of crystallographic molecules

2. Whose ideas did Rosy's research ignore?
(a) Watson's
(b) Cochran's
(c) Crick's
(d) Pauling's

3. What happens when Watson is uninterested and unexcited?
(a) He stops working
(b) He looks for a woman to keep him company
(c) He drinks
(d) He concentrates on the wrong things

4. Which of the following characters was on the edge of being fired?
(a) Franklin
(b) Pauling
(c) Crick
(d) Watson

5. Which of the following subjects was Herman uninterested in?
(a) Biology
(b) Genetics
(c) Biochemistry
(d) Chemistry

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Watson's fellowship?

2. On what topic had Bragg, Kendrew and Perutz published a paper?

3. What is crystallography?

4. How did Watson and Crick respond to Bragg when he told them to stop working on the structure of DNA?

5. What did Watson and Crick decide they would need in order to move forward?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Watson's position on life and work?

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

4. Why didn't Crick attend the lecture?

5. In what way did Watson technically break the terms of his fellowship?

6. What concerned Maurice about Linus?

7. Why was it illegal for Watson to move to Cambridge?

8. What happened when Watson went to work trying to apply his pairs theory to the new base structures?

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

10. Describe Francis Crick's home.

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