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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What medical condition does Marie suffer from due to her diet?
(a) Diabetes.
(b) Osteoporosis.
(c) Anemia.
(d) Scurvy.

6. How do her employers treat Manya?
(a) Abusively.
(b) Kindly.
(c) With great respect.
(d) Unkindly.

7. How do the Curies discover radium's luminosity?
(a) They see jars on the shelf glowing blue.
(b) They combine it with salt.
(c) They reduce the atomic weight.
(d) They boil down the liquid for a long time.

8. What does Pierre study at the School of Physics and Chemistry in Paris?
(a) Crystalline physics.
(b) Idealism.
(c) Scientific scales.
(d) Symmetry.

9. What conclusion does Marie draw about the minerals she examines?
(a) They are not as strong as uranium.
(b) They all have their basis in thorium.
(c) The radioactivity is limited to only uranium and thorium.
(d) There must be another element as yet undetermined.

10. What does Manya enter for the first time during this time period in her life?
(a) Hospital.
(b) School.
(c) Laboratory.
(d) Museum.

11. What are the boys in the opening scene of the story playing with?
(a) Marbles.
(b) Toy vehicles.
(c) Wooden blocks.
(d) Toy animals.

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

13. Which of the children died from typhus?
(a) Zosia.
(b) Joseph.
(c) Bronya.
(d) Hela.

14. Why don't the Curies buy large quantities of pitchblende?
(a) It is too rare.
(b) It is not safe to have large quantities.
(c) It is only found in Russia.
(d) It is too expensive.

15. What does Marie call the second of the new elements she and Pierre discovered?
(a) Uranium.
(b) Polonium.
(c) Radium.
(d) Thorium.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the children's single focus at this time?

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

3. What position does Monsieur Sklodovska accept after his retirement?

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

5. How were Marie and Pierre introduced?

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