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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marie maintain despite the fact that she is growing weak and aging?
(a) Curiousity.
(b) Weariness.
(c) Inhuman pace.
(d) Sadness.

2. How does the American public rank Marie Curie which her children see for the first time?
(a) As their savior.
(b) As the most important woman.
(c) Among the most important living men and women.
(d) As any other scientist.

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

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

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

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

7. What happens to Marie on June 25, 1903?
(a) She is awarded her doctorate degree.
(b) She has a miscarriage.
(c) She gives birth to her second child.
(d) She finds out her father is dead.

8. How does Marie rest after she spends her day working at the laboratory?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Reading.
(c) Corresponding with her colleagues.
(d) Playing with her granddaughter.

9. What did Marie donate to the lab that she does not want taken?
(a) Her first gram of radium.
(b) Pierre's memoirs.
(c) Her own sweat and tears.
(d) Her logs and notes.

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

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

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

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Marie refuse?

3. What does Marie collaborate with Andre Debierne on?

4. As Marie aged into her fifties, how does Marie seem to change?

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

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