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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 is the lesson that Marie ensured her children would learn?
(a) Love.
(b) About their father.
(c) Respect.
(d) Independence.

2. How were Marie and Pierre introduced?
(a) Pierre's family.
(b) A Polish physics professor.
(c) Marie's father.
(d) Marie's sister and brother-in-law.

3. What is one of Manya, Aunt Lucia and Hela's favorite activities?
(a) Going to Church.
(b) Telling Polish stories.
(c) Buying apples.
(d) Reading from the Bible.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the children died from typhus?

2. What has impeded the atmosphere at the schools in Poland?

3. How does Jean Perrin describe Marie's ability to run the laboratory?

4. What was the monument erected to represent?

5. In what way is Joseph Boguski related to Manya?

(see the answer key)

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