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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the committee started by Mrs. Meloney present to Marie?
(a) A trip to America.
(b) An article about her life.
(c) A gram of radium.
(d) A new laboratory.

4. As Marie aged into her fifties, how does Marie seem to change?
(a) She becomes more animated.
(b) She sufferes from serous health problems.
(c) She becomes more serene.
(d) She withdraws more.

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

6. What does Marie continue to suffer from?
(a) Grief.
(b) Radiation sickness.
(c) Tremors.
(d) Stage fright.

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

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

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

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

11. What news does Maire receive about her father?
(a) That he is very ill.
(b) That he has died.
(c) That he has money for her.
(d) That he is leaving Poland.

12. What does Marie collaborate with Andre Debierne on?
(a) Creating Pierre's dream lab.
(b) Preparing a new lab.
(c) Creating a home for her children.
(d) Preparing pure radium.

13. 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 new lab.
(c) Her dead husband.
(d) Her patriotism.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Marie make her last trip to Poland?

2. What ultimately kills Pierre?

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

4. Which is the most accurate description of the manner in which Pierre is walking on the day he died?

5. What does the celebrity status ruin for Marie causing her to become depressed?

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