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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What profession does Mrs. William Brown Meloney practice?
(a) Labroatory assistant.
(b) University professor.
(c) Scientist specializing in X-rays.
(d) Magazine editor.

3. 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 a copyright for scientists.
(c) Establishing services for the poor.
(d) Establishing a sharing policy among the countries.

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

5. Why doesn't Marie go with Pierre to the Royal Society?
(a) She is ill.
(b) She is too pregnant.
(c) She is not allowed.
(d) She needs to take care of her father.

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

7. Which of the following characters seems to be as despotic as Marie once was?
(a) Irene.
(b) Joliot.
(c) Helene.
(d) Eve.

8. What does Marie do with the clothes Pierre was wearing when he was killed?
(a) She gives them to Bronya to get rid of.
(b) She cleans them meticuously.
(c) She cuts them up and throws them in the fire.
(d) She cuts them into pieces for a quilt.

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

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

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

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

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

14. What does Marie's discovery cause to be re-examined?
(a) Treatment of rheumatism.
(b) Laws of physics.
(c) Handling of materials.
(d) Nature of the universe.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What arouses Marie's competitive spirit?

3. What happens when Pierre has an attack?

4. Why does Eve believe Marie did not provide her with the kind of discipline she may have needed?

5. Continuing the research themselves in their shed causes what to happen to Marie?

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