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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Manya indicate she feels for the first time when her father sends her to the country as a reward?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Relief.
(c) Realism.
(d) Boredom.

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

3. What does Bronya tell her father to do with some of the money her father has set aside?
(a) Move the family to Paris.
(b) Pay back Manya.
(c) Send Manya to school.
(d) Find a better house.

4. How does Manya combat her discouragement?
(a) Doing charity work.
(b) Tutoring the peasants.
(c) Writing her own books.
(d) Earning more and more money.

5. Why does Marie ignore all of her health issues?
(a) She is not speaking to her family.
(b) She cannot remember her symptoms.
(c) Because she cannot afford to treat her condition.
(d) To focus only on studying.

6. What do Manya and Kazia do when they pass the monument in Saxony Square?
(a) Kick it.
(b) Throw stones at it.
(c) Spit on it.
(d) Salute it.

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

8. How many years younger is Manya than her classmates?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

9. How do Marie and Pierre travel on their honeymoon?
(a) Train.
(b) Horseback.
(c) Bicycles.
(d) Wagon.

10. 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 most perfect years of her life.
(c) The worst years of her life.
(d) The most difficult years of her life.

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

12. Who is Manya's first romance with?
(a) A friend of her fathers.
(b) Her employer's son.
(c) A boy from her brother's school.
(d) Her sister's best friend.

13. Why did Monsieur Sklodovska lose his job?
(a) His wife became ill.
(b) He wasn't subservient enough.
(c) He couldn't learn to speak Russian.
(d) He was caught speaking Polish.

14. Where does Manya go to escape from her troubles?
(a) Books.
(b) Church.
(c) The river.
(d) School.

15. What religion does Manya practice?
(a) Methodist.
(b) Lutheran.
(c) Catholic.
(d) Russian Orthodox.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was one of Manya's classmates brothers hanged?

2. What does the father of the children in the opening scene of the school teach?

3. What is Manya's personal ambition?

4. Why does Manya come to the conclusion that keeping a post in Warsaw is impossible?

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

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