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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marie do with the clothes Pierre was wearing when he was killed?
(a) She gives them to Bronya to get rid of.
(b) She cuts them up and throws them in the fire.
(c) She cleans them meticuously.
(d) She cuts them into pieces for a quilt.

2. What does Marie begin to devote her time to establish in her role as a member of the International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation?
(a) Establishing services for the poor.
(b) Establishing a series of new labs.
(c) Establishing a sharing policy among the countries.
(d) Establishing a copyright for scientists.

3. What did Marie donate to the lab that she does not want taken?
(a) Her logs and notes.
(b) Her own sweat and tears.
(c) Pierre's memoirs.
(d) Her first gram of radium.

4. What tic does Marie develop?
(a) She picks the skin away from her hands.
(b) She jerks her head from side to side.
(c) She constantly coughs.
(d) She rubs her burned fingers together.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marie maintain despite the fact that she is growing weak and aging?

2. What was Marie the first person and only person to do?

3. What is the one problem with the house in Sceaux?

4. What news does Maire receive about her father?

5. What dream does Marie also come to realize in 1925?

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