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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Marie feel truly in her element?
(a) Working with the peasants.
(b) Physics laboratory.
(c) With her sister and brother-in-law.
(d) Her attic apartment.

3. Why did the Sklodovskas switch to education?
(a) Because estates have grown poorer.
(b) Because they believe in education.
(c) Because it is the safest profession.
(d) Because that is what their familes have done for years.

4. What does Marie discover?
(a) Uranium.
(b) Gamma rays.
(c) Thorium.
(d) Radioactivity.

5. Which of the following is the best definition for the term kuligs?
(a) Special dishes cooked for birthdays.
(b) Country wildflowers.
(c) Books read in isolation.
(d) Carnivals lasting several days.

6. What is Manya's dream at this time in her life?
(a) Liberty.
(b) To become a physician.
(c) To study physics.
(d) Nationhood.

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

8. Why does Marie need to get up very early in the morning?
(a) To pay the bills.
(b) To take Pierre to work.
(c) To go to the market.
(d) To do her own chores.

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

10. What does the visit from the inspector make Manya more aware of?
(a) Her need to flee Poland.
(b) Her personal troubles.
(c) Her lack of personal strength.
(d) Her desire to find a new book.

11. Which of the following children is the youngest?
(a) Bronya.
(b) Manya.
(c) Joseph.
(d) Hela.

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

13. How many elements do Marie and Pierre come to realize radioactivity is concentrated in besides those already identified?
(a) 3.
(b) 0.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bronya tell her father to do with some of the money her father has set aside?

2. What is the children's single focus at this time?

3. What does Marie decide to get her masters degree in?

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

5. How does Manya consider herself intellectually?

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