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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Watson and Crick have to wait for?
(a) Rosy to leave King's lab
(b) Maurice to provide them with new information
(c) Changes to be made to the backbone
(d) Base models to be built

2. How did Maurice answer when asked if he minded Watson and Crick working on the structure of DNA?
(a) No, immediately
(b) Yes, immediately
(c) He said they should all work together
(d) No, but slowly

3. What had the Cavendish lab recently discovered?
(a) The structure of DNA
(b) A model of DNA and RNA
(c) A new kind of X-ray tube
(d) The structure of RNA

4. Who is expected to come speak at a conference at the end of chapter sixteen?
(a) Rosy
(b) Maurice
(c) Crick
(d) Pauling

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Crick unable to concentrate on which he was supposed to be working on?

2. The epilogue can best be described as which of the following?

3. How did Watson spend the time while he waited for the machine shop to construct the necessary parts?

4. Whom did Watson compare Crick to when talking to Delbruck?

5. Where was Pauling's lab?

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