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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapter 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. How do the words that Manya overhears make her feel even though she doesn't understand what they mean?
(a) Worried.
(b) Disgusted.
(c) Angered.
(d) Frightened.

3. How does Manya consider herself intellectually?
(a) Superior.
(b) Passable.
(c) Below par.
(d) Average if not less.

4. Why does Marie need to get up very early in the morning?
(a) To pay the bills.
(b) To do her own chores.
(c) To take Pierre to work.
(d) To go to the market.

5. Why don't the Curies ask the university or French government for a grant?
(a) They feel they will be laughed at.
(b) They have already received the maximum amount of money.
(c) They are not French citizens.
(d) They are not tenored and cannot get grants.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Marie ignore all of her health issues?

2. What decision does Marie come to as the Germans continue to advance?

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

4. What does Marie eat regularly?

5. What does Manya find the discussion at her employers' home to be filled with?

(see the answer key)

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