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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marie have to endure as she grows older that she hides from her workers?
(a) Hearing loss.
(b) Temporary blindness.
(c) Memory loss.
(d) Inability to speak clearly.

2. What paid position does Marie obtain at the end of the year?
(a) Academy of Science accountant.
(b) University professor.
(c) Chief of laboratory work.
(d) Nobel prize lecturer.

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

4. What is the one problem with the house in Sceaux?
(a) It is not designed for children.
(b) It reminds her too much of Pierre.
(c) It is too much for her to care for alone.
(d) It is half an hour from the lab.

5. What is Marie's primary reason for the decision she makes in regard as to whether to go or stay?
(a) Her children.
(b) Her patriotism.
(c) Her dead husband.
(d) Her new lab.

6. What does Marie form for her children after her father-in-law dies?
(a) A play yard near her lab.
(b) A room in the house specifically for them.
(c) A teaching cooperative.
(d) A special memorial to her husband and father-in-law.

7. What does Marie insist on after she reviews the documents presented to her by the President?
(a) That her lab in Paris be moved to America.
(b) That they be turned in for funds to support her lab in Paris.
(c) That they be displayed in her lab.
(d) That they be changed to give the gift to the scientific community not herself.

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

9. What are the "little Curies"?
(a) Mobile labs that mine radium.
(b) Equipped X-ray cars.
(c) Cars that haul the wounded.
(d) X-ray machines delivered to new hospitals.

10. Which of the following characters seems to be as despotic as Marie once was?
(a) Joliot.
(b) Irene.
(c) Eve.
(d) Helene.

11. What did Marie donate to the lab that she does not want taken?
(a) Her logs and notes.
(b) Her own sweat and tears.
(c) Pierre's memoirs.
(d) Her first gram of radium.

12. What political situation does Marie take an interest in?
(a) Revolution in Russia.
(b) WWI.
(c) Poland Revolution.
(d) WWII.

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

14. How does Jean Perrin describe Marie's ability to run the laboratory?
(a) The hardest working person he has ever known.
(b) The most dedicated professional he has ever known.
(c) The most patient directer he has ever known.
(d) The best director he has ever known.

15. What is the lesson that Marie ensured her children would learn?
(a) Independence.
(b) About their father.
(c) Love.
(d) Respect.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marie do in her advancing age that is similar to when she was a young child again?

2. Continuing the research themselves in their shed causes what to happen to Marie?

3. Where was Pierre headed on the morning he died?

4. Why is Marie hunted and hounded by anonymous letters and threatened with violence?

5. What news does Maire receive about her father?

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