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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Where was Pierre headed on the morning he died?
(a) To sign papers for a new grant.
(b) To take his daughter to the doctor.
(c) To correct some proofs.
(d) To meet Marie.

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

6. What do Pierre's frustrations and poor health cause Marie to do?
(a) Flee her family.
(b) Take more time doing nothing.
(c) Hire a full-time nurse.
(d) Work more intensely.

7. Why is Marie hunted and hounded by anonymous letters and threatened with violence?
(a) Because she is exposing others to radiation.
(b) Because she is cheating to win the prizes.
(c) Because she is perceived as a homewrecker.
(d) Because she refuses to accept awards.

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

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

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

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

12. What decision does Marie come to as the Germans continue to advance?
(a) To return to Poland and fight for her home country.
(b) To sacrifice herself to save her children.
(c) To stay in Paris no matter what.
(d) To leave Paris and join her children.

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

14. 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 allows her to continue.
(c) The one that has to do with scientific order.
(d) The one that classifies sailing skill.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What news does Maire receive about her father?

3. Marie continues on with her research despite what?

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

5. What arouses Marie's competitive spirit?

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