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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 stay in Warsaw another year.
(b) She decides to abandon everything.
(c) She decides to go to Paris with her father.
(d) She decides to move back with her father.

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

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

4. What is Marie's primary reason for the decision she makes in regard as to whether to go or stay?
(a) Her new lab.
(b) Her patriotism.
(c) Her children.
(d) Her dead husband.

5. What position does Monsieur Sklodovska accept after his retirement?
(a) Assassin.
(b) Teacher of the poor.
(c) Director of a reform school.
(d) Director of boarding house.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Pierre take a position at the P.C.N.?

2. What need does Marie recognize for as the war breaks out?

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

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

5. What do the doctors diagnose Pierre with?

(see the answer key)

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