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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapter 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What revives Marie's nature and fervor to return to work?
(a) Desire to find the answer.
(b) A new breakthrough.
(c) Love of small children.
(d) Husband's death.

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

3. What news does Maire receive about her father?
(a) That he is leaving Poland.
(b) That he is very ill.
(c) That he has died.
(d) That he has money for her.

4. What does Marie refuse?
(a) Home in Sceaux.
(b) Warsaw Prize.
(c) French Legion of Honor.
(d) Nobel Prize.

5. What do Pierre's frustrations and poor health cause Marie to do?
(a) Take more time doing nothing.
(b) Hire a full-time nurse.
(c) Work more intensely.
(d) Flee her family.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the American public rank Marie Curie which her children see for the first time?

2. When does Manya finish her secondary studies?

3. What does Marie's discovery cause to be re-examined?

4. What does Manya experience as soon as she leaves her books?

5. What is the children's single focus at this time?

(see the answer key)

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