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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 Marie and Pierre travel on their honeymoon?
(a) Wagon.
(b) Bicycles.
(c) Train.
(d) Horseback.

2. What does Marie eat regularly?
(a) Water and noodles.
(b) Buttered bread and tea.
(c) Beef and noodles.
(d) Rice and broth.

3. How are Marie and Pierre similar?
(a) Both have sisters.
(b) Both are from Poland.
(c) Both are married to their work.
(d) Both like to be near their family.

4. What does Manya experience as soon as she leaves her books?
(a) A return of her sadness.
(b) A longing to flee her life.
(c) An anger at the Russians.
(d) A desire to help her mother.

5. What causes Manya to experience her first revolt against the church?
(a) Reading her books.
(b) The Russian imposition.
(c) Her father's loss of job and wages.
(d) Her mother's death.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Marie call the second of the new elements she and Pierre discovered?

4. What is Manya's personal ambition?

5. Where does Manya find her own friends?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Marie's constant companion until married and what happens to their relationship after the marriage?

3. What does Marie do after she discovers that uranium and thorium are radioactive and what discovery does this lead to?

4. What does Monsieur Sklodovska represent?

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

6. What happens as Marie goes to the lab to work every morning?

7. How does Manya come to the conclusion that her plan was futile?

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

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

10. Whose research has Pierre been watching and what did that research yield?

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