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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 is Watson's interest?
(a) How does DNA crystallize?
(b) Where is DNA stored?
(c) What is a gene?
(d) What are the crystallized images?

2. Which of the following words best describes Maurice as a scientist?
(a) Cautious
(b) Uncaring
(c) Awkward
(d) Belligerent

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

4. What is the purpose of the preface in this text?
(a) To outline the main events of the book
(b) To set the purpose and scope
(c) To define what type of book it is
(d) To introduce the characters

5. With whom did Watson want to work in Cambridge?
(a) Linus Pauling
(b) Roy Markahm
(c) Maurice Wilkins
(d) Sir Lawrence Bragg

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following characters didn't believe that helices were the answer to the structure of DNA?

2. What specifically was wrong with Watson and Crick's model so that it disagreed with Rosy's research?

3. Where did the Fellowship Board indicate Watson could transfer?

4. Which of the following characters was already working on the problem of DNA in London with Crick?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Crick accuse Sir Lawrence of?

3. In the forward, Bragg describes the following story as what kind?

4. What did Crick tell Watson they had found?

5. How did Maurice think it would be best to find a model of DNA?

6. What has Watson done on a social aspect while trying to make X-ray photographs?

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

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

9. What concerned Maurice about Linus?

10. How many bases are there in DNA?

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