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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why couldn't Watson concentrate on this thesis?
(a) Excitement about the base pairs
(b) Distracted by Rosy's animosty
(c) Distracted by Watson's social life
(d) Excitement at attending a new lecture

2. Which word best describes Watson's feelings at the idea of working with bases in pairs?
(a) Enthusiastic
(b) Egotistical
(c) Depressed
(d) Downtrodden

3. Which of the following is the best definition of the term untenable?
(a) Able to be possible
(b) Unable to be defended
(c) Justified
(d) Empty

4. What topic was Linus Pauling studying?
(a) How protein helixes created coils within coils
(b) How protein coils did not make helixes
(c) How to build a model of DNA
(d) Why bacteria were able to reproduce

5. Who did Pauling give copies of his manuscript which contained his new model of DNA?
(a) Rosy and Bragg
(b) Watson and Crick
(c) Rosy and Maurice
(d) Peter and Bragg

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Crick become annoyed with Watson?

2. What had Rosy surrounded DNA with in the B photograph?

3. How did Maurice answer when asked if he minded Watson and Crick working on the structure of DNA?

4. What did Watson continue to believe the problem was?

5. What did Watson and Crick have to wait for?

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