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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Manya and Kazia do when they pass the monument in Saxony Square?
(a) Salute it.
(b) Kick it.
(c) Spit on it.
(d) Throw stones at it.

2. Who is Manya's first romance with?
(a) A friend of her fathers.
(b) Her sister's best friend.
(c) A boy from her brother's school.
(d) Her employer's son.

3. What does Marie decide to pursue her doctorate in?
(a) Anatomy.
(b) Physical science.
(c) Biological science.
(d) Medicine.

4. When does Manya finish her secondary studies?
(a) 1880.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1883.
(d) 1885.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What religion does Manya practice?

2. How does Marie look back on these years with her exhaustion and chronic worry about money?

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

4. Where do the Sklodovskass now live?

5. How do the Curies discover radium's luminosity?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Manya find her first experience as a governess to be an eye-opening one?

2. How does Marie find international work and what continues to be her life-long ambition?

3. What does a typical day look like for Manya at this point in her life?

4. What do the students at Marie's school do that could be considered dangerous?

5. How does Marie spend her days?

6. What does Marie have to do on a regular basis?

7. How does Manya come to the conclusion that her plan was futile?

8. What role does Marie continue to have in the lab?

9. How does Marie treat the German physicists after the war?

10. What takes up most of Pierre's times and how does this help with the support of his family?

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