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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which is the most accurate description of the manner in which Pierre is walking on the day he died?
(a) Absent-mindedly.
(b) With a purpose.
(c) Directly.
(d) Methodically.

2. What does the celebrity status ruin for Marie causing her to become depressed?
(a) Her nerves.
(b) Her trust.
(c) Her marriage.
(d) Her children.

3. What was Marie the first person and only person to do?
(a) To expose her children to radioactivity.
(b) Win the Nobel Prize twice.
(c) To win scientific prizes as a Polish citizen.
(d) To survive radiation poisoning.

4. Continuing the research themselves in their shed causes what to happen to Marie?
(a) She loses her position.
(b) Her family abandons her.
(c) She is unable to care for Irene.
(d) Her health deteriorates.

5. Why do Marie and Pierre believe winning the prize has made them miserable?
(a) They have to move on to a new research topic.
(b) They are no longer famous.
(c) They have to leave their homes.
(d) They get no peace.

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

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

8. What does Pierre discover about radiation?
(a) It is making him sick.
(b) It is difficult to identify.
(c) It can be manufactored without radium.
(d) It destroys diseased cells.

9. Marie continues on with her research despite what?
(a) Her children's wishes.
(b) Her continued health problems.
(c) Her on-going grief.
(d) Her lack of help.

10. What is the only hierarchy that Marie allows in Brittany when she joins her children?
(a) The one that holds master over servant.
(b) The one that has to do with scientific order.
(c) The one that allows her to continue.
(d) The one that classifies sailing skill.

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

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

13. How does Marie feel about going on without Pierre?
(a) That she should take her own life to be with Pierre.
(b) That it is impossible.
(c) That she must fulfill his dream.
(d) That she must go on for her children.

14. 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.

15. How does Marie appear to the public according to Eve?
(a) A team player.
(b) A solitary figure.
(c) A brillant woman.
(d) An impressive orator.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Marie on June 25, 1903?

2. Why is Marie able to find friends in the peasants of the village?

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

4. What news does Maire receive about her father?

5. What does Marie accuse herself of when in truth she simply needs to find some actual rest in her life?

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