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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapter 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the Curies pay for the residue of the pitchblende they receive from the mines?
(a) University money.
(b) Borrowed money from their siblings.
(c) Their own savings.
(d) Borrowed money from a bank loan.

2. What ultimately kills Pierre?
(a) Curb.
(b) Horse hoof.
(c) Front wagon wheel.
(d) Back wagon wheel.

3. What is Pierre's only focus when Marie and he settle into their first flat?
(a) Practicing medicine.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Research.
(d) Making a home together.

4. What revives Marie's nature and fervor to return to work?
(a) Love of small children.
(b) A new breakthrough.
(c) Desire to find the answer.
(d) Husband's death.

5. Why does Pierre take a position at the P.C.N.?
(a) He and Marie move.
(b) There are better research facilities.
(c) It pays better.
(d) They offerred him a grant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Manya enter for the first time during this time period in her life?

2. What balance do the Curies find disrupted by their newfound famous status?

3. Where does Marie dream of building a home, but never finds the time to fulfill her dream?

4. What has Marie ruled out of her life?

5. What is piezoelectric quartz?

(see the answer key)

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