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

2. When does Manya finish her secondary studies?
(a) 1880.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1883.
(d) 1885.

3. How does Marie look back on these years with her exhaustion and chronic worry about money?
(a) The most perfect years of her life.
(b) The worst years of her life.
(c) The most difficult years of her life.
(d) The most surprising years of her life.

4. How many elements do Marie and Pierre come to realize radioactivity is concentrated in besides those already identified?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 0.

5. What does Mademoiselle Mayer believe Manya to be?
(a) Smart and respectful.
(b) Lying and deceitful.
(c) Studious and disrespectful.
(d) Stubborn and scornful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marie call the second of the new elements she and Pierre discovered?

2. Why does Manya stay working as the governess with Casimir's family?

3. Why do the Curies decide not to patent their discovery?

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

5. What happens to Marie on June 25, 1903?

(see the answer key)

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