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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What causes Manya to experience her first revolt against the church?
(a) Reading her books.
(b) The Russian imposition.
(c) Her father's loss of job and wages.
(d) Her mother's death.

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

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

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

8. As Marie Curie reflected back on her life what did she indicate was necessary in order to build a better world?
(a) Self-guided principles.
(b) Self-discovery.
(c) Improving the individual.
(d) Social progress.

9. Who did Monsieur Sklodovska follow in regards to his career?
(a) His mother.
(b) His wife.
(c) No one, he forged his own path.
(d) His father.

10. How does Manya describe her successes with the peasants?
(a) Major.
(b) Minor.
(c) Ground breaking.
(d) Unfulfilling.

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

12. What does Marie eat regularly?
(a) Beef and noodles.
(b) Buttered bread and tea.
(c) Water and noodles.
(d) Rice and broth.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the boys in the opening scene of the story playing with?

2. What seems to be always near the surface among the Polish intelligentsia?

3. What was the monument erected to represent?

4. Where does Marie feel truly in her element?

5. Why does Marie need to get up very early in the morning?

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