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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 have to endure as she grows older that she hides from her workers?
(a) Hearing loss.
(b) Memory loss.
(c) Temporary blindness.
(d) Inability to speak clearly.

2. What did Mademoiselle Mayer catch Manya and her friend doing that caused a great conflict between the two of them?
(a) Making fun of Mademoiselle Mayer behind her back.
(b) Speaking in Polish instead of Russian.
(c) Studying subjects that were prohibited to girls.
(d) Dancing with joy at the assassination of the Tsar.

3. What does the celebrity status ruin for Marie causing her to become depressed?
(a) Her children.
(b) Her nerves.
(c) Her trust.
(d) Her marriage.

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

5. Why does Manya come to the conclusion that keeping a post in Warsaw is impossible?
(a) She cannot hide from the Russians.
(b) It does not pay enough.
(c) She can not tolerate the rich.
(d) She finds no intellectual challenge.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following children is the youngest?

2. What happened to Bronya's son?

3. What is one of Eve's earliest memories of her mother?

4. What does Marie form for her children after her father-in-law dies?

5. What do the Curies have to now prove?

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