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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. How do the Curies discover radium's luminosity?
(a) They combine it with salt.
(b) They reduce the atomic weight.
(c) They see jars on the shelf glowing blue.
(d) They boil down the liquid for a long time.

2. What did Mademoiselle Mayer catch Manya and her friend doing that caused a great conflict between the two of them?
(a) Dancing with joy at the assassination of the Tsar.
(b) Speaking in Polish instead of Russian.
(c) Making fun of Mademoiselle Mayer behind her back.
(d) Studying subjects that were prohibited to girls.

3. Why does Marie need to get up very early in the morning?
(a) To do her own chores.
(b) To take Pierre to work.
(c) To go to the market.
(d) To pay the bills.

4. What is Pierre's only focus when Marie and he settle into their first flat?
(a) Teaching.
(b) Making a home together.
(c) Practicing medicine.
(d) Research.

5. What does Marie call the second of the new elements she and Pierre discovered?
(a) Radium.
(b) Thorium.
(c) Uranium.
(d) Polonium.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pierre study at the School of Physics and Chemistry in Paris?

2. What does Marie decide to get her masters degree in?

3. In what way is Joseph Boguski related to Manya?

4. How do the Curies pay for the residue of the pitchblende they receive from the mines?

5. What conclusion does Marie draw about the minerals she examines?

Short Essay Questions

1. What method does Marie devise and what does she prepare the first of in regard to radium?

2. What are Marie's plans after she passes her examinations and how do her plans change?

3. What discovery does Marie make about radium?

4. What does Marie create to help with the war and where does she get the funds for these projects?

5. Who invites Pierre to give a lecture on radium and why is it special that Marie attends with him?

6. What does Mademoiselle Mayer believe about Manya and what does she do to Manya because of this belief?

7. What happens when Marie is told that Pierre has been killed?

8. Where does Manya go to school and what is different about this school?

9. Why is Pierre shocked that Marie has a dream to think about doing nothing?

10. What causes Pierre to not get the post as a professor at the Sorbonne?

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