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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 does Marie refuse?
(a) French Legion of Honor.
(b) Nobel Prize.
(c) Warsaw Prize.
(d) Home in Sceaux.

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

3. How does Marie look back on these years with her exhaustion and chronic worry about money?
(a) The most perfect years of her life.
(b) The most surprising years of her life.
(c) The most difficult years of her life.
(d) The worst years of her life.

4. Why do the professors arouse criticism?
(a) They make too much noise.
(b) They treat the peasants poorly.
(c) They speak above their colleagues.
(d) Beach life is not in fashion.

5. Which of the following is the best definition for the term kuligs?
(a) Carnivals lasting several days.
(b) Country wildflowers.
(c) Special dishes cooked for birthdays.
(d) Books read in isolation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Manya begin teaching?

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

3. What does Marie decide to pursue her doctorate in?

4. What balance do the Curies find disrupted by their newfound famous status?

5. Where does Manya go to escape from her troubles?

(see the answer key)

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