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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. How did Maurice feel after hearing Rosy's presentation?
(a) Reborn
(b) Angered
(c) Pleased
(d) Deflated

2. Which of the following characters did Crick discuss his problems with the helix theory with?
(a) Vand
(b) Sir Lawrence
(c) Watson
(d) Cochran

3. What was Watson's main scientific interest?
(a) The scientific process
(b) RNA
(c) Human relations
(d) DNA

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

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who convinced Bragg that Watson and Crick should not be working on the problem of the structure of DNA?

2. At what university were both Crick and the author working in the opening chapter?

3. Which of the following is the best definition of phages?

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

5. What did Wilkin's x-rays show?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way might this book be considered an apology for the winning of the Nobel Prize by Watson and Crick?

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

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

5. What did Crick accuse Sir Lawrence of?

6. What concerned Maurice about Linus?

7. What was the force that continued to drive Watson?

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

9. What was Watson's breakthrough an implication for?

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

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