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

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

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

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

5. What decision does Marie come to as the Germans continue to advance?
(a) To leave Paris and join her children.
(b) To return to Poland and fight for her home country.
(c) To stay in Paris no matter what.
(d) To sacrifice herself to save her children.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bronya tell her father to do with some of the money her father has set aside?

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

3. Why does Manya's work end at Sczczuki?

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

5. What decision does Manya make in regard to her life when Bronya invites her to Paris?

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