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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Manya find the discussion at her employers' home to be filled with?
(a) Russian loyalty.
(b) Intellectual pursuits.
(c) Social change.
(d) Gossip.

2. What is one of Eve's earliest memories of her mother?
(a) Collapsing in a faint.
(b) Sleeping on her lab table.
(c) Working in the lab.
(d) Crying about her deceased father.

3. What are the "little Curies"?
(a) Cars that haul the wounded.
(b) X-ray machines delivered to new hospitals.
(c) Equipped X-ray cars.
(d) Mobile labs that mine radium.

4. What does Bronya tell her father to do with some of the money her father has set aside?
(a) Send Manya to school.
(b) Find a better house.
(c) Pay back Manya.
(d) Move the family to Paris.

5. How do the Curies pay for the residue of the pitchblende they receive from the mines?
(a) Their own savings.
(b) University money.
(c) Borrowed money from a bank loan.
(d) Borrowed money from their siblings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why don't the Curies ask the university or French government for a grant?

2. What does Manya find herself ecstatic with even though she has holes in her math and physics skills?

3. What revives Marie's nature and fervor to return to work?

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

5. Where do Manya and Bronya dream of going?

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