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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens when Pierre has an attack?
(a) He becomes mean and agitated.
(b) He has severe seizures.
(c) He is weak and unable to work.
(d) He goes into a stupor where he knows no one.

3. Where does Marie turn to find some emotional strength and support?
(a) Her work.
(b) Her father-in-law.
(c) Her colleagues.
(d) Her children.

4. Which of the following characters is Marie's constant companion until married?
(a) Helene.
(b) Eve.
(c) Irene.
(d) Frederic.

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

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

7. Why do the Curies decide not to patent their discovery?
(a) They do not need the money.
(b) They believe that they will not earn respect.
(c) They feel it would be contrary to scientific spirit.
(d) They were refused because Marie is female.

8. Why is it surprising that the Americans donated another gram of radium to Marie?
(a) Marie's refusal to return to America.
(b) THere was an on-going war.
(c) A looming financial crisis.
(d) The radium was for Poland.

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. What does Marie begin to devote her time to establish in her role as a member of the International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation?
(a) Establishing a copyright for scientists.
(b) Establishing a sharing policy among the countries.
(c) Establishing services for the poor.
(d) Establishing a series of new labs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Bronya's son?

2. What is Marie's primary reason for the decision she makes in regard as to whether to go or stay?

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

4. How does Jean Perrin describe Marie's ability to run the laboratory?

5. What does Marie refuse?

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