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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 terms best describes how the meeting went with Rosy, Maurice, Watson and Crick?
(a) Realistically
(b) Disappointing
(c) Supportive
(d) Exciting

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

3. On what topic had Bragg, Kendrew and Perutz published a paper?
(a) Insulin dependent molecules
(b) Crystallographic chains
(c) Polypeptide chains
(d) Helical molecules

4. In what year did the author meet Crick?
(a) 1945
(b) 1963
(c) 1928
(d) 1951

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 model of DNA in it
(c) It contained information they needed to build a model of DNA
(d) It had a foreward written by Dorothy Hodgkin, a leading researcher into crystallography

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following had Pauling partially solved?

2. Which of the following was NOT a reason that Watson was disheartened with Naples?

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

4. Why couldn't Sir Lawrence remove Crick from the lab?

5. With whom did Watson want to work in Cambridge?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Rosy seem to believe that research on DNA would require?

2. What did Crick accuse Sir Lawrence of?

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. Describe Francis Crick's home.

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

6. How did Watson and Crick get Rosy's measurements at their Cambridge lab?

7. What new information was revealed when Pauling appeared unexpectedly at the meeting?

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

9. What did Crick tell Watson they had found?

10. What changed during the normally social lunch period in the Cambridge lab?

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