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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 does Bronya tell her father to do with some of the money her father has set aside?
(a) Send Manya to school.
(b) Find a better house.
(c) Pay back Manya.
(d) Move the family to Paris.

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

3. What decision does Manya make in regard to her life when Bronya invites her to Paris?
(a) She decides to abandon everything.
(b) She decides to move back with her father.
(c) She decides to go to Paris with her father.
(d) She decides to stay in Warsaw another year.

4. What did Marie donate to the lab that she does not want taken?
(a) Her own sweat and tears.
(b) Her first gram of radium.
(c) Her logs and notes.
(d) Pierre's memoirs.

5. What news does Maire receive about her father?
(a) That he is very ill.
(b) That he has died.
(c) That he is leaving Poland.
(d) That he has money for her.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happened to Bronya's son?

3. Continuing the research themselves in their shed causes what to happen to Marie?

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

5. In what way is Joseph Boguski related to Manya?

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