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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the children takes over managing the household once Manya's mother dies?
(a) Hela.
(b) Manya.
(c) Bronya.
(d) Joseph.

2. Where does Marie feel truly in her element?
(a) Working with the peasants.
(b) With her sister and brother-in-law.
(c) Physics laboratory.
(d) Her attic apartment.

3. What patent could the Curies obtain?
(a) The name for the treatment, radiation.
(b) The process for producing salts from radium.
(c) The process for identifying radium.
(d) The mining of radium.

4. What is Manya's personal ambition?
(a) To help her sister realize her dreams.
(b) To help the poor.
(c) To study in Paris.
(d) To become a patriot.

5. What conclusion does Marie draw about the minerals she examines?
(a) There must be another element as yet undetermined.
(b) The radioactivity is limited to only uranium and thorium.
(c) They are not as strong as uranium.
(d) They all have their basis in thorium.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Manya's first romance with?

2. Which of the following is the best definition for the term kuligs?

3. Why does Marie ignore all of her health issues?

4. Why was one of Manya's classmates brothers hanged?

5. How does Marie look back on these years with her exhaustion and chronic worry about money?

(see the answer key)

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