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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Manya begin to withdraw from the performances the Polish students have?
(a) Because it is dangerous and takes away study time.
(b) Because she enjoys entertaining with her sister.
(c) Because her father told her to do that.
(d) Because she cannot participate in them.

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

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

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

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

6. What is Pierre's only focus when Marie and he settle into their first flat?
(a) Research.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Making a home together.
(d) Practicing medicine.

7. What is pitchblende?
(a) A polonium based metal.
(b) A radium core.
(c) A uranium core.
(d) A combination of radium and polonium.

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

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

10. What is Manya afraid she will never be forgiven for figuring out how to do?
(a) Talk.
(b) Fight.
(c) Read.
(d) Write.

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

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

13. What does Manya find the discussion at her employers' home to be filled with?
(a) Gossip.
(b) Russian loyalty.
(c) Intellectual pursuits.
(d) Social change.

14. How do the words that Manya overhears make her feel even though she doesn't understand what they mean?
(a) Worried.
(b) Frightened.
(c) Disgusted.
(d) Angered.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is piezoelectric quartz?

2. What does Marie call the second of the new elements she and Pierre discovered?

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

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

5. Where does Manya find her own friends?

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