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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the "little Curies"?
(a) Cars that haul the wounded.
(b) Mobile labs that mine radium.
(c) X-ray machines delivered to new hospitals.
(d) Equipped X-ray cars.

2. Why does Manya's work end at Sczczuki?
(a) The children have gotten married.
(b) The children finish their exams.
(c) She has decided to leave the position.
(d) The family can no longer afford to pay her.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. About how many of the "little Curies" did Marie personally create by the end of the war?

3. What decision does Marie come to as the Germans continue to advance?

4. What news does Maire receive about her father?

5. What is Marie's primary reason for the decision she makes in regard as to whether to go or stay?

(see the answer key)

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