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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What political situation does Marie take an interest in?
(a) WWII.
(b) Poland Revolution.
(c) Revolution in Russia.
(d) WWI.

3. What do the reporters in America call Marie?
(a) Savior of the sick and down trodden.
(b) Traditional female researcher.
(c) Model for the female species.
(d) Benefactress of the human race.

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

5. As Marie aged into her fifties, how does Marie seem to change?
(a) She withdraws more.
(b) She sufferes from serous health problems.
(c) She becomes more animated.
(d) She becomes more serene.

6. How many scientific communications do the Curies publish between 1899 and 1904?
(a) 50.
(b) 10.
(c) 32.
(d) 25.

7. What does Marie accuse herself of when in truth she simply needs to find some actual rest in her life?
(a) Resolution.
(b) Stupidity.
(c) Anger.
(d) Losing her mind.

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

9. Why is Marie able to find friends in the peasants of the village?
(a) She has earned their respect.
(b) She goes out of her way to help them.
(c) They see her for herself.
(d) They recognize her as one of their own.

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

11. What is the lesson that Marie ensured her children would learn?
(a) Independence.
(b) About their father.
(c) Love.
(d) Respect.

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

13. Why is Marie hunted and hounded by anonymous letters and threatened with violence?
(a) Because she is cheating to win the prizes.
(b) Because she refuses to accept awards.
(c) Because she is perceived as a homewrecker.
(d) Because she is exposing others to radiation.

14. What did Marie donate to the lab that she does not want taken?
(a) Her logs and notes.
(b) Her own sweat and tears.
(c) Her first gram of radium.
(d) Pierre's memoirs.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What revives Marie's nature and fervor to return to work?

2. What does Marie form for her children after her father-in-law dies?

3. In what year does Marie make her last trip to Poland?

4. What does Marie specifically make time to do now that she had not done previously?

5. What does Marie maintain despite the fact that she is growing weak and aging?

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