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

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

3. Which of the following children is the youngest?
(a) Bronya.
(b) Hela.
(c) Joseph.
(d) Manya.

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

5. Why was one of Manya's classmates brothers hanged?
(a) Refusing to follow the school mistress.
(b) Teaching the girls forbidden things.
(c) Speaking Polish.
(d) Plotting against Russia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the monument erected to represent?

2. What does Manya enter for the first time during this time period in her life?

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

4. Which of the following is the best definition for the term kuligs?

5. What happens during Marie and Pierre's second year of marriage?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the history for Monsieur and Madame Sklodovska and how is their life currently?

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

3. What obstacles does Marie encounter when she goes to complete her education?

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

5. What is Monsieur Sklodovska's new position and how does he feel about the position?

6. How does Marie spend her days?

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

8. How does Marie treat the German physicists after the war?

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

10. What does Marie realize about herself in regard to her profession?

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