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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 research is Pierre conducting that he abandons to help Marie?
(a) Uranium conductivity.
(b) Crystalline physics
(c) Thorium resilience.
(d) X-ray exclusions.

2. Why does Manya come to the conclusion that keeping a post in Warsaw is impossible?
(a) She cannot hide from the Russians.
(b) It does not pay enough.
(c) She finds no intellectual challenge.
(d) She can not tolerate the rich.

3. How many scientific communications do the Curies publish between 1899 and 1904?
(a) 50.
(b) 25.
(c) 10.
(d) 32.

4. Which of the children has gone to study medicine?
(a) Joseph.
(b) Bronya.
(c) Hela.
(d) Manya.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the committee started by Mrs. Meloney present to Marie?

2. Why did Monsieur Sklodovska lose his job?

3. Who agrees to move in with Marie and Pierre to help them with the new child?

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

5. What does the visit from the inspector make Manya more aware of?

(see the answer key)

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