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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marie collaborate with Andre Debierne on?
(a) Creating Pierre's dream lab.
(b) Creating a home for her children.
(c) Preparing pure radium.
(d) Preparing a new lab.

2. Why do Marie and Pierre believe winning the prize has made them miserable?
(a) They get no peace.
(b) They have to move on to a new research topic.
(c) They have to leave their homes.
(d) They are no longer famous.

3. Which is the most accurate description of the manner in which Pierre is walking on the day he died?
(a) Methodically.
(b) With a purpose.
(c) Directly.
(d) Absent-mindedly.

4. What revives Marie's nature and fervor to return to work?
(a) Desire to find the answer.
(b) Husband's death.
(c) Love of small children.
(d) A new breakthrough.

5. Continuing the research themselves in their shed causes what to happen to Marie?
(a) Her health deteriorates.
(b) Her family abandons her.
(c) She is unable to care for Irene.
(d) She loses her position.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Marie when she makes her first trip to America?

2. What does Marie specifically make time to do now that she had not done previously?

3. What tic does Marie develop?

4. How does Jean Perrin describe Marie's ability to run the laboratory?

5. What does Pierre discover about radiation?

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