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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one of Eve's earliest memories of her mother?
(a) Crying about her deceased father.
(b) Working in the lab.
(c) Collapsing in a faint.
(d) Sleeping on her lab table.

2. What are the "little Curies"?
(a) Equipped X-ray cars.
(b) X-ray machines delivered to new hospitals.
(c) Cars that haul the wounded.
(d) Mobile labs that mine radium.

3. What arouses Marie's competitive spirit?
(a) Writing.
(b) Swimming.
(c) Music.
(d) Sailing.

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

5. Why is it surprising that the Americans donated another gram of radium to Marie?
(a) THere was an on-going war.
(b) Marie's refusal to return to America.
(c) A looming financial crisis.
(d) The radium was for Poland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What obscured Pierre's vision?

2. What tic does Marie develop?

3. As Marie aged into her fifties, how does Marie seem to change?

4. What does the celebrity status ruin for Marie causing her to become depressed?

5. What do the reporters in America call Marie?

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