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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 does the celebrity status ruin for Marie causing her to become depressed?
(a) Her marriage.
(b) Her children.
(c) Her nerves.
(d) Her trust.

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

3. Which is the most accurate description of the manner in which Pierre is walking on the day he died?
(a) With a purpose.
(b) Methodically.
(c) Absent-mindedly.
(d) Directly.

4. What does Marie insist on after she reviews the documents presented to her by the President?
(a) That her lab in Paris be moved to America.
(b) That they be displayed in her lab.
(c) That they be changed to give the gift to the scientific community not herself.
(d) That they be turned in for funds to support her lab in Paris.

5. What do Manya and Kazia do when they pass the monument in Saxony Square?
(a) Spit on it.
(b) Throw stones at it.
(c) Salute it.
(d) Kick it.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Marie feel about going on without Pierre?

2. What does Mademoiselle Mayer believe Manya to be?

3. Where does Manya go to escape from her troubles?

4. How many scientific communications do the Curies publish between 1899 and 1904?

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

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