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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why was one of Manya's classmates brothers hanged?
(a) Plotting against Russia.
(b) Speaking Polish.
(c) Refusing to follow the school mistress.
(d) Teaching the girls forbidden things.

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

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

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

7. What does Marie decide to get her masters degree in?
(a) Physics and anatomy.
(b) Physics and math.
(c) Physics only.
(d) Math and anatomy.

8. What has Marie ruled out of her life?
(a) Fulfilling her dreams.
(b) Family support.
(c) Love.
(d) Children.

9. Why do Casimir's parents oppose the idea of marriage to Manya?
(a) They think they are too young to get married.
(b) They do not want him to marry a governess.
(c) Manya's family does not have enough money.
(d) They want him to marry a Russian.

10. What does the father of the children in the opening scene of the school teach?
(a) Chemistry.
(b) Physics.
(c) Calculus.
(d) Anatomy.

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

12. What does Manya offer to God in place of her mother?
(a) Herself.
(b) Her books.
(c) Her apples.
(d) Her father.

13. How do the children earn their living as they finish school?
(a) Tutoring.
(b) Being a servant.
(c) Taking on boarders.
(d) Cleaning houses.

14. Where does this story open?
(a) Warsaw.
(b) Germany.
(c) Italy.
(d) England.

15. Where does Manya find her own friends?
(a) Her sister's friends.
(b) The peasants of the city.
(c) Other Polish students in the Latin Quarter.
(d) Russian immigrants in Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many elements do Marie and Pierre come to realize radioactivity is concentrated in besides those already identified?

2. What is Pierre's only focus when Marie and he settle into their first flat?

3. How does Manya describe her successes with the peasants?

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

5. How does Manya describe her first post as governess?

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