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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. Continuing the research themselves in their shed causes what to happen to Marie?
(a) Her health deteriorates.
(b) She loses her position.
(c) Her family abandons her.
(d) She is unable to care for Irene.

2. What do the reporters in America call Marie?
(a) Traditional female researcher.
(b) Model for the female species.
(c) Benefactress of the human race.
(d) Savior of the sick and down trodden.

3. What is one of Manya, Aunt Lucia and Hela's favorite activities?
(a) Going to Church.
(b) Reading from the Bible.
(c) Buying apples.
(d) Telling Polish stories.

4. Which of the children died from typhus?
(a) Zosia.
(b) Bronya.
(c) Joseph.
(d) Hela.

5. What did Marie donate to the lab that she does not want taken?
(a) Her own sweat and tears.
(b) Pierre's memoirs.
(c) Her first gram of radium.
(d) Her logs and notes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happened to Bronya's son?

3. What causes Manya to experience her first revolt against the church?

4. What paid position does Marie obtain at the end of the year?

5. How many elements do Marie and Pierre come to realize radioactivity is concentrated in besides those already identified?

(see the answer key)

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