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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Watson and Francis go for the weekend after Rosy's lecture?

2. What is crystallography?

3. Which of the following terms best describes how the meeting went with Rosy, Maurice, Watson and Crick?

4. What began to interest Crick after his argument with Sir Lawrence?

5. Which of the following terms best describes how Watson felt about chemistry BEFORE meeting Wilkins?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the underlying reason behind Sir Lawrence having Watson and Crick stop working on the structure of DNA?

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

3. Why were the crystallized images important?

4. What concerned Maurice about Linus?

5. What did Watson want to study after hearing Pauling's lecture?

6. What bothered Crick about his wife's relationship with Elizabeth?

7. What does Watson do that Crick is unhappy with?

8. How had Watson gotten a place to leave in Clare College?

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

10. What statement did Rosy make about the idea that helices were the answer to the structure of DNA?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay on the idea that a scientist's life is not truly separable from the scientist's work. Use examples from the text to support your writing.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay examining the character of Rosy in an in-depth manner. Relate her description, actions and ideas to the concept of women in a male dominated field during the 1950s. Make an evaluation of these ideas and concepts and present them with support from the text.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay describing in what way it is a truth that "a scientist's life might be interesting socially as well as intellectually." Use information from the text to support your writing.

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