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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 do the Curies have to now prove?
(a) The existence of radium.
(b) The similarities between radium and polonium.
(c) The radioactivity of radium.
(d) The differences between radium and polonium.

2. What is Manya's personal ambition?
(a) To help her sister realize her dreams.
(b) To become a patriot.
(c) To study in Paris.
(d) To help the poor.

3. What does Marie discover?
(a) Thorium.
(b) Radioactivity.
(c) Gamma rays.
(d) Uranium.

4. Why is Manya always chosen to answer the inspector's questions?
(a) She speaks Russian perfectly and is knowledgeable.
(b) She can tell lies perfectly in Russian.
(c) She is the most respectful to the inspector.
(d) She is the youngest in the class and therefore impressive.

5. How does Manya describe her successes with the peasants?
(a) Major.
(b) Ground breaking.
(c) Unfulfilling.
(d) Minor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Manya and Kazia do when they pass the monument in Saxony Square?

2. Why did the Sklodovskas switch to education?

3. How many elements do Marie and Pierre come to realize radioactivity is concentrated in besides those already identified?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What influence did Marie's father-in-law have on Irene?

6. What does the money that Pierre receives allow Pierre to do and what does the publicity bring Marie and Pierre?

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

8. What seems to be intruding on the Polish schools and in what way have things changed?

9. Where do Marie and Pierre settle after their honeymoon and how do they furnish their first home?

10. What happens when war breaks out?

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