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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 Manya enter for the first time during this time period in her life?
(a) Museum.
(b) School.
(c) Hospital.
(d) Laboratory.

2. Who does Monsieur Sklodovska have an ongoing conflict with?
(a) The Russian Tsar.
(b) Russian principal.
(c) His colleagues.
(d) His wife.

3. Why do Casimir's parents oppose the idea of marriage to Manya?
(a) They do not want him to marry a governess.
(b) They want him to marry a Russian.
(c) Manya's family does not have enough money.
(d) They think they are too young to get married.

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

5. What do Manya and Kazia do when they pass the monument in Saxony Square?
(a) Spit on it.
(b) Kick it.
(c) Throw stones at it.
(d) Salute it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Manya find her own friends?

2. How do her employers treat Manya?

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

4. What medical condition does Marie suffer from due to her diet?

5. How many years younger is Manya than her classmates?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Marie find international work and what continues to be her life-long ambition?

2. How is Pierre killed?

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

4. What is Marie's one and only goal?

5. What happens when war breaks out?

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

7. What killed Marie?

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

9. What does Monsieur Sklodovska represent?

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

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