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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapter 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What revives Marie's nature and fervor to return to work?
(a) A new breakthrough.
(b) Desire to find the answer.
(c) Love of small children.
(d) Husband's death.

2. Where does Manya find her own friends?
(a) Other Polish students in the Latin Quarter.
(b) The peasants of the city.
(c) Russian immigrants in Paris.
(d) Her sister's friends.

3. What ultimately kills Pierre?
(a) Horse hoof.
(b) Front wagon wheel.
(c) Curb.
(d) Back wagon wheel.

4. What research is Pierre conducting that he abandons to help Marie?
(a) Uranium conductivity.
(b) X-ray exclusions.
(c) Crystalline physics
(d) Thorium resilience.

5. How does Marie look back on these years with her exhaustion and chronic worry about money?
(a) The most difficult years of her life.
(b) The worst years of her life.
(c) The most perfect years of her life.
(d) The most surprising years of her life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Pierre has an attack?

2. What does the visit from the inspector make Manya more aware of?

3. How many years younger is Manya than her classmates?

4. Why is Manya always chosen to answer the inspector's questions?

5. Why did Monsieur Sklodovska lose his job?

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