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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. About how many of the "little Curies" did Marie personally create by the end of the war?
(a) 2000.
(b) 200.
(c) 2.
(d) 2 million.

3. What is Marie's primary reason for the decision she makes in regard as to whether to go or stay?
(a) Her patriotism.
(b) Her children.
(c) Her new lab.
(d) Her dead husband.

4. What decision does Marie come to as the Germans continue to advance?
(a) To stay in Paris no matter what.
(b) To sacrifice herself to save her children.
(c) To leave Paris and join her children.
(d) To return to Poland and fight for her home country.

5. What do the doctors diagnose Pierre with?
(a) Rheumatism.
(b) Radiation poisoning.
(c) Meningitis.
(d) Tubercularosis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What decision does Manya make in regard to her life when Bronya invites her to Paris?

2. What need does Marie recognize for as the war breaks out?

3. What does Bronya tell her father to do with some of the money her father has set aside?

4. Why does Pierre take a position at the P.C.N.?

5. What news does Maire receive about her father?

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