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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the children's single focus at this time?
(a) Learning.
(b) Staying healthy.
(c) Managing the house.
(d) Helping their father.

2. In what way is Joseph Boguski related to Manya?
(a) Uncle.
(b) Cousin.
(c) Brother.
(d) Grandfather.

3. Which of the following areas best describes why Manya feels so depressed?
(a) Unfulfilled love and intellectual ambition.
(b) Unfulfilled need to achieve personal fulfillment.
(c) Unfulfilled ability to learn in Paris.
(d) Unfulfilled financial obligations.

4. Why does Manya stay working as the governess with Casimir's family?
(a) She cannot bear to be away from Casimir.
(b) She wants to convince them to approve of the marriage.
(c) She cannot find another job that pays as much.
(d) The family asks her to stay to prevent scandal.

5. Why does Manya begin to withdraw from the performances the Polish students have?
(a) Because she enjoys entertaining with her sister.
(b) Because she cannot participate in them.
(c) Because her father told her to do that.
(d) Because it is dangerous and takes away study time.

6. What do the Curies have to now prove?
(a) The similarities between radium and polonium.
(b) The existence of radium.
(c) The radioactivity of radium.
(d) The differences between radium and polonium.

7. How does Manya describe her first post as governess?
(a) Inventive.
(b) Wonderful.
(c) Hell.
(d) Tolerable.

8. Who did Monsieur Sklodovska follow in regards to his career?
(a) His father.
(b) His wife.
(c) No one, he forged his own path.
(d) His mother.

9. What caused Pierre's career to suffer?
(a) His attraction to Marie.
(b) His need to always be in control.
(c) His idealism.
(d) His location in Paris.

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

11. What does Mademoiselle Mayer believe Manya to be?
(a) Studious and disrespectful.
(b) Lying and deceitful.
(c) Stubborn and scornful.
(d) Smart and respectful.

12. What is Manya's dream at this time in her life?
(a) Liberty.
(b) To study physics.
(c) To become a physician.
(d) Nationhood.

13. Who does Manya begin teaching?
(a) Poor working women.
(b) Those who wish to learn chemistry.
(c) All of the children in her neighborhood.
(d) Young polish children.

14. Which of the following children is the youngest?
(a) Joseph.
(b) Bronya.
(c) Hela.
(d) Manya.

15. What has impeded the atmosphere at the schools in Poland?
(a) Unqualifed teachers.
(b) Lack of finances.
(c) Russian control.
(d) German invasion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the monument erected to represent?

2. What does Manya indicate she feels for the first time when her father sends her to the country as a reward?

3. Why does Manya change her name to Marie?

4. How do the children earn their living as they finish school?

5. What medical condition does Marie suffer from due to her diet?

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