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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mademoiselle Mayer believe Manya to be?
(a) Lying and deceitful.
(b) Stubborn and scornful.
(c) Studious and disrespectful.
(d) Smart and respectful.

2. What caused Pierre's career to suffer?
(a) His idealism.
(b) His need to always be in control.
(c) His location in Paris.
(d) His attraction to Marie.

3. Who is Manya's first romance with?
(a) Her employer's son.
(b) A boy from her brother's school.
(c) A friend of her fathers.
(d) Her sister's best friend.

4. Where does Manya find her own friends?
(a) Other Polish students in the Latin Quarter.
(b) The peasants of the city.
(c) Her sister's friends.
(d) Russian immigrants in Paris.

5. What does Manya offer to God in place of her mother?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her apples.
(c) Herself.
(d) Her books.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why don't the Curies buy large quantities of pitchblende?

2. How are Marie and Pierre similar?

3. What does the Curies' doctor warn Marie of?

4. Why does Manya come to the conclusion that keeping a post in Warsaw is impossible?

5. What decision does Manya make in regard to her life when Bronya invites her to Paris?

Short Essay Questions

1. What discovery does Marie make about radium?

2. What do Irene and Eve learn about their mother on that first trip to America?

3. What role does Marie continue to have in the lab?

4. What killed Marie?

5. What is Marie appointed to and what does she publish?

6. What happens when war breaks out?

7. What takes up most of Pierre's times and how does this help with the support of his family?

8. Where does Manya begin going to school and what is dangerous about her attending this school?

9. What do the students at Marie's school do that could be considered dangerous?

10. What do Marie and Pierre decide to do in regard to the existence of radium and how do they decide to accomplish this?

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