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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. Who does Manya begin teaching?
(a) Young polish children.
(b) Poor working women.
(c) All of the children in her neighborhood.
(d) Those who wish to learn chemistry.

2. What is the main area that Manya has found her interest waning in since she arrived in Paris?
(a) Young men.
(b) Physics.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Family relationships.

3. How does Manya describe her successes with the peasants?
(a) Major.
(b) Ground breaking.
(c) Unfulfilling.
(d) Minor.

4. Which of the following areas best describes why Manya feels so depressed?
(a) Unfulfilled ability to learn in Paris.
(b) Unfulfilled love and intellectual ambition.
(c) Unfulfilled need to achieve personal fulfillment.
(d) Unfulfilled financial obligations.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Casimir's parents oppose the idea of marriage to Manya?

2. What is Pierre's only focus when Marie and he settle into their first flat?

3. How many years younger is Manya than her classmates?

4. Where do the Curies go to escape the publicity?

5. What do Pierre's frustrations and poor health cause Marie to do?

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