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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Marie specifically make time to do now that she had not done previously?
(a) Teach others about her research.
(b) Travel to support scientific projects.
(c) Use her name to gather funds.
(d) Spend more time with her family.

4. What is one of Eve's earliest memories of her mother?
(a) Crying about her deceased father.
(b) Working in the lab.
(c) Sleeping on her lab table.
(d) Collapsing in a faint.

5. What does Marie accuse herself of when in truth she simply needs to find some actual rest in her life?
(a) Anger.
(b) Resolution.
(c) Stupidity.
(d) Losing her mind.

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

7. 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.

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

9. What patent could the Curies obtain?
(a) The process for identifying radium.
(b) The name for the treatment, radiation.
(c) The mining of radium.
(d) The process for producing salts from radium.

10. 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.

11. What does the Royal Institution want with Pierre?
(a) To head their research department.
(b) To give a lecture on radium.
(c) To get treatment for his illness.
(d) To teach at their institute.

12. How do Marie's workers feel about her?
(a) They are devoted to her.
(b) They no longer trust her judgment.
(c) They think it is time that she resign.
(d) They take pride in her accomplishments.

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

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

15. Where does Marie dream of building a home, but never finds the time to fulfill her dream?
(a) Larcouest.
(b) Sceaux.
(c) Saint-Louis.
(d) Warsaw.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only hierarchy that Marie allows in Brittany when she joins her children?

2. What profession does Mrs. William Brown Meloney practice?

3. What tic does Marie develop?

4. What ultimately kills Pierre?

5. How does Marie rest after she spends her day working at the laboratory?

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