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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What obscured Pierre's vision?
(a) A wagon.
(b) A horse.
(c) A closed cab.
(d) A crowd.

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

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

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

6. 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 series of new labs.
(b) Establishing services for the poor.
(c) Establishing a copyright for scientists.
(d) Establishing a sharing policy among the countries.

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

8. What does the Royal Society of London present to the Curies?
(a) Davy Medal.
(b) Research grant.
(c) Position at the university.
(d) Nobel Prize.

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

10. What balance do the Curies find disrupted by their newfound famous status?
(a) That between personal life and work.
(b) That between work and publishing.
(c) That between work and finances.
(d) That between family and financial.

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

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

13. What happened to Bronya's son?
(a) He died of tubercular meningitis.
(b) He has moved back to Poland.
(c) He was hung by the Russians.
(d) He has graduated from university.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What revives Marie's nature and fervor to return to work?

2. Which of the following characters seems to be as despotic as Marie once was?

3. What ultimately kills Pierre?

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

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

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