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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Manya consider herself intellectually?
(a) Average if not less.
(b) Passable.
(c) Below par.
(d) Superior.

2. What does Mademoiselle Mayer believe Manya to be?
(a) Studious and disrespectful.
(b) Smart and respectful.
(c) Lying and deceitful.
(d) Stubborn and scornful.

3. As Marie Curie reflected back on her life what did she indicate was necessary in order to build a better world?
(a) Improving the individual.
(b) Self-guided principles.
(c) Self-discovery.
(d) Social progress.

4. Why does Manya come to the conclusion that keeping a post in Warsaw is impossible?
(a) She finds no intellectual challenge.
(b) It does not pay enough.
(c) She can not tolerate the rich.
(d) She cannot hide from the Russians.

5. Which of the children died from typhus?
(a) Joseph.
(b) Zosia.
(c) Bronya.
(d) Hela.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bronya tell her father to do with some of the money her father has set aside?

2. How many elements do Marie and Pierre come to realize radioactivity is concentrated in besides those already identified?

3. What decision does Manya make in regard to her life when Bronya invites her to Paris?

4. What does Pierre study at the School of Physics and Chemistry in Paris?

5. What obscured Pierre's vision?

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