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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ultimately kills Pierre?
(a) Horse hoof.
(b) Back wagon wheel.
(c) Curb.
(d) Front wagon wheel.

2. What does Marie typically do on Tuesday and Fridays?
(a) Receives honors.
(b) Gives interviews.
(c) Gives lectures.
(d) Works in the lab.

3. Why does Eve believe Marie did not provide her with the kind of discipline she may have needed?
(a) She never got over her grief.
(b) She had Irene to share her own views and beliefs.
(c) She respected Eve's free will too much.
(d) She was too emotionally unstable.

4. What is it that Marie loves to do best?
(a) Listen to her daughters.
(b) Work in the lab.
(c) Give lectures.
(d) Read.

5. About how many of the "little Curies" did Marie personally create by the end of the war?
(a) 2 million.
(b) 2.
(c) 2000.
(d) 200.

6. What decision does Marie come to as the Germans continue to advance?
(a) To sacrifice herself to save her children.
(b) To return to Poland and fight for her home country.
(c) To leave Paris and join her children.
(d) To stay in Paris no matter what.

7. What does Marie refuse?
(a) Home in Sceaux.
(b) Warsaw Prize.
(c) Nobel Prize.
(d) French Legion of Honor.

8. What happened to Bronya's son?
(a) He was hung by the Russians.
(b) He died of tubercular meningitis.
(c) He has graduated from university.
(d) He has moved back to Poland.

9. In what year does Marie make her last trip to Poland?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1922.

10. What does Marie do in her advancing age that is similar to when she was a young child again?
(a) Plays with toys.
(b) Counts in Polish.
(c) Reads.
(d) Works in her laboratory.

11. What arouses Marie's competitive spirit?
(a) Music.
(b) Sailing.
(c) Writing.
(d) Swimming.

12. What revives Marie's nature and fervor to return to work?
(a) Love of small children.
(b) Husband's death.
(c) Desire to find the answer.
(d) A new breakthrough.

13. What does Marie's discovery cause to be re-examined?
(a) Laws of physics.
(b) Treatment of rheumatism.
(c) Nature of the universe.
(d) Handling of materials.

14. What dream does Marie also come to realize in 1925?
(a) A lab that Pierre would have loved.
(b) A radiology institute in Warsaw.
(c) Her first grandson.
(d) A home in America.

15. Why doesn't Marie go with Pierre to the Royal Society?
(a) She is ill.
(b) She needs to take care of her father.
(c) She is not allowed.
(d) She is too pregnant.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Marie appear to the public according to Eve?

2. Which of the following characters is Marie's constant companion until married?

3. How many scientific communications do the Curies publish between 1899 and 1904?

4. What was Marie the first person and only person to do?

5. What does Marie maintain despite the fact that she is growing weak and aging?

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