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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapter 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to Bronya's son?
(a) He died of tubercular meningitis.
(b) He was hung by the Russians.
(c) He has moved back to Poland.
(d) He has graduated from university.

2. What patent could the Curies obtain?
(a) The mining of radium.
(b) The process for identifying radium.
(c) The name for the treatment, radiation.
(d) The process for producing salts from radium.

3. Why was one of Manya's classmates brothers hanged?
(a) Speaking Polish.
(b) Teaching the girls forbidden things.
(c) Refusing to follow the school mistress.
(d) Plotting against Russia.

4. Where does Marie feel truly in her element?
(a) Her attic apartment.
(b) With her sister and brother-in-law.
(c) Working with the peasants.
(d) Physics laboratory.

5. What do the doctors diagnose Pierre with?
(a) Rheumatism.
(b) Tubercularosis.
(c) Radiation poisoning.
(d) Meningitis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Manya's personal ambition?

2. Which of the children has gone to study medicine?

3. What do Pierre's frustrations and poor health cause Marie to do?

4. What obscured Pierre's vision?

5. What does Manya indicate she feels for the first time when her father sends her to the country as a reward?

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