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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. What does Marie decide to get her masters degree in?
(a) Math and anatomy.
(b) Physics and anatomy.
(c) Physics and math.
(d) Physics only.

2. What does Marie eat regularly?
(a) Buttered bread and tea.
(b) Rice and broth.
(c) Water and noodles.
(d) Beef and noodles.

3. What did Mademoiselle Mayer catch Manya and her friend doing that caused a great conflict between the two of them?
(a) Dancing with joy at the assassination of the Tsar.
(b) Making fun of Mademoiselle Mayer behind her back.
(c) Studying subjects that were prohibited to girls.
(d) Speaking in Polish instead of Russian.

4. Why was one of Manya's classmates brothers hanged?
(a) Refusing to follow the school mistress.
(b) Speaking Polish.
(c) Plotting against Russia.
(d) Teaching the girls forbidden things.

5. What does Marie call the second of the new elements she and Pierre discovered?
(a) Radium.
(b) Uranium.
(c) Thorium.
(d) Polonium.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Manya describe her successes with the peasants?

2. What does Marie discover?

3. What conclusion does Marie draw about the minerals she examines?

4. What is Manya's personal ambition?

5. What does Mademoiselle Mayer believe Manya to be?

(see the answer key)

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