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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following isn't one of the words Manya picks up on from overheard conversations?
(a) Police.
(b) Revolt.
(c) Deportation.
(d) Tsar.

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

3. Who agrees to move in with Marie and Pierre to help them with the new child?
(a) Pierre's sister.
(b) Marie's father.
(c) Marie's brother.
(d) Pierre's father.

4. 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 stay in Warsaw another year.
(c) She decides to abandon everything.
(d) She decides to go to Paris with her father.

5. Why does Manya change her name to Marie?
(a) Because it is the French version of her name.
(b) Because she wants to forget her past.
(c) Because she is starting a new life.
(d) Because her sister who died used to call her that.

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

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

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

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

10. What does Marie decide to pursue her doctorate in?
(a) Biological science.
(b) Anatomy.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Physical science.

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

12. Where do Manya and Bronya dream of going?
(a) Russia.
(b) America.
(c) Paris.
(d) London.

13. What position does Monsieur Sklodovska accept after his retirement?
(a) Director of boarding house.
(b) Teacher of the poor.
(c) Director of a reform school.
(d) Assassin.

14. Who does Monsieur Sklodovska have an ongoing conflict with?
(a) His wife.
(b) The Russian Tsar.
(c) His colleagues.
(d) Russian principal.

15. What happens during Marie and Pierre's second year of marriage?
(a) He loses his job.
(b) Pierre dies.
(c) She gets pregnant.
(d) Marie graduates from school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What profession does Bronya's husband have?

2. How were Marie and Pierre introduced?

3. What has impeded the atmosphere at the schools in Poland?

4. How do the Curies pay for the residue of the pitchblende they receive from the mines?

5. What does Mademoiselle Mayer believe Manya to be?

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