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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) Equipped X-ray cars.
(b) X-ray machines delivered to new hospitals.
(c) Cars that haul the wounded.
(d) Mobile labs that mine radium.

2. 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.

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

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What happened to Bronya's son?

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

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