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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) Managing the house.
(c) Helping their father.
(d) Staying healthy.

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

3. What profession does Bronya's husband have?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Scientist.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Superintendent.

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

5. What does Manya experience as soon as she leaves her books?
(a) A return of her sadness.
(b) An anger at the Russians.
(c) A desire to help her mother.
(d) A longing to flee her life.

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

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

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

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

10. What does Manya find the discussion at her employers' home to be filled with?
(a) Social change.
(b) Gossip.
(c) Intellectual pursuits.
(d) Russian loyalty.

11. What decision does Manya make in regard to her life when Bronya invites her to Paris?
(a) She decides to move back with her father.
(b) She decides to abandon everything.
(c) She decides to stay in Warsaw another year.
(d) She decides to go to Paris with her father.

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

13. What is Manya's personal ambition?
(a) To become a patriot.
(b) To study in Paris.
(c) To help her sister realize her dreams.
(d) To help the poor.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Manya begin to withdraw from the performances the Polish students have?

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

3. How do the words that Manya overhears make her feel even though she doesn't understand what they mean?

4. Why don't the Curies ask the university or French government for a grant?

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

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