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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Marie discover?
(a) Thorium.
(b) Radioactivity.
(c) Uranium.
(d) Gamma rays.

3. What patent could the Curies obtain?
(a) The name for the treatment, radiation.
(b) The process for producing salts from radium.
(c) The process for identifying radium.
(d) The mining of radium.

4. What religion does Manya practice?
(a) Methodist.
(b) Russian Orthodox.
(c) Lutheran.
(d) Catholic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the Curies discover radium's luminosity?

2. Which of the children died from typhus?

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

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

5. How does Marie look back on these years with her exhaustion and chronic worry about money?

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