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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is one of Eve's earliest memories of her mother?
(a) Collapsing in a faint.
(b) Working in the lab.
(c) Sleeping on her lab table.
(d) Crying about her deceased father.

3. What patent could the Curies obtain?
(a) The name for the treatment, radiation.
(b) The mining of radium.
(c) The process for producing salts from radium.
(d) The process for identifying radium.

4. Continuing the research themselves in their shed causes what to happen to Marie?
(a) She is unable to care for Irene.
(b) Her health deteriorates.
(c) She loses her position.
(d) Her family abandons her.

5. 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.

6. Why is Marie able to find friends in the peasants of the village?
(a) They see her for herself.
(b) She has earned their respect.
(c) She goes out of her way to help them.
(d) They recognize her as one of their own.

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

8. What do the doctors diagnose Pierre with?
(a) Radiation poisoning.
(b) Meningitis.
(c) Tubercularosis.
(d) Rheumatism.

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

10. As Marie aged into her fifties, how does Marie seem to change?
(a) She becomes more animated.
(b) She withdraws more.
(c) She becomes more serene.
(d) She sufferes from serous health problems.

11. What is it that Marie loves to do best?
(a) Listen to her daughters.
(b) Give lectures.
(c) Read.
(d) Work in the lab.

12. What do the reporters in America call Marie?
(a) Model for the female species.
(b) Savior of the sick and down trodden.
(c) Traditional female researcher.
(d) Benefactress of the human race.

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

14. What arouses Marie's competitive spirit?
(a) Swimming.
(b) Music.
(c) Writing.
(d) Sailing.

15. What is the only hierarchy that Marie allows in Brittany when she joins her children?
(a) The one that classifies sailing skill.
(b) The one that allows her to continue.
(c) The one that holds master over servant.
(d) The one that has to do with scientific order.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marie specifically make time to do now that she had not done previously?

2. How do Marie's workers feel about her?

3. What does Marie do with the clothes Pierre was wearing when he was killed?

4. How does Marie feel about going on without Pierre?

5. What is the one problem with the house in Sceaux?

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