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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which is the most accurate description of the manner in which Pierre is walking on the day he died?
(a) With a purpose.
(b) Directly.
(c) Absent-mindedly.
(d) Methodically.

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

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

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

6. What does the celebrity status ruin for Marie causing her to become depressed?
(a) Her trust.
(b) Her marriage.
(c) Her nerves.
(d) Her children.

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

8. What does Pierre discover about radiation?
(a) It destroys diseased cells.
(b) It is difficult to identify.
(c) It is making him sick.
(d) It can be manufactored without radium.

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

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

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

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

13. Marie continues on with her research despite what?
(a) Her continued health problems.
(b) Her lack of help.
(c) Her children's wishes.
(d) Her on-going grief.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What look do Eve and Irene always associate with their mother?

3. What paid position does Marie obtain at the end of the year?

4. How does the American public rank Marie Curie which her children see for the first time?

5. What does Marie have to endure as she grows older that she hides from her workers?

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