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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 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.

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

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

4. What happens when Pierre has an attack?
(a) He has severe seizures.
(b) He is weak and unable to work.
(c) He goes into a stupor where he knows no one.
(d) He becomes mean and agitated.

5. What need does Marie recognize for as the war breaks out?
(a) More radium.
(b) More scientific research.
(c) Portable X-ray machines.
(d) Cancer treatment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position does Monsieur Sklodovska accept after his retirement?

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

3. What did Marie donate to the lab that she does not want taken?

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

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

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