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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the children has gone to study medicine?
(a) Manya.
(b) Joseph.
(c) Bronya.
(d) Hela.

2. What does Marie discover?
(a) Uranium.
(b) Gamma rays.
(c) Radioactivity.
(d) Thorium.

3. What does Marie decide to get her masters degree in?
(a) Physics and anatomy.
(b) Physics and math.
(c) Physics only.
(d) Math and anatomy.

4. What happens to Marie on June 25, 1903?
(a) She gives birth to her second child.
(b) She finds out her father is dead.
(c) She has a miscarriage.
(d) She is awarded her doctorate degree.

5. What does Mademoiselle Mayer believe Manya to be?
(a) Smart and respectful.
(b) Lying and deceitful.
(c) Stubborn and scornful.
(d) Studious and disrespectful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marie call the second of the new elements she and Pierre discovered?

2. What does Pierre discover about radiation?

3. How does Manya describe her successes with the peasants?

4. What is Manya's personal ambition?

5. Why do the Curies decide not to patent their discovery?

(see the answer key)

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