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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Marie's primary reason for the decision she makes in regard as to whether to go or stay?

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

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

4. What happened to Bronya's son?

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

(see the answer key)

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