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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marie have to endure as she grows older that she hides from her workers?
(a) Memory loss.
(b) Hearing loss.
(c) Temporary blindness.
(d) Inability to speak clearly.

2. What obscured Pierre's vision?
(a) A crowd.
(b) A closed cab.
(c) A horse.
(d) A wagon.

3. What does Marie refuse?
(a) French Legion of Honor.
(b) Home in Sceaux.
(c) Warsaw Prize.
(d) Nobel Prize.

4. What profession does Mrs. William Brown Meloney practice?
(a) University professor.
(b) Magazine editor.
(c) Labroatory assistant.
(d) Scientist specializing in X-rays.

5. What patent could the Curies obtain?
(a) The mining of radium.
(b) The process for producing salts from radium.
(c) The process for identifying radium.
(d) The name for the treatment, radiation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What news does Maire receive about her father?

2. What does Marie's discovery cause to be re-examined?

3. What are the "little Curies"?

4. What does Marie collaborate with Andre Debierne on?

5. What does Marie accuse herself of when in truth she simply needs to find some actual rest in her life?

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