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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marie collaborate with Andre Debierne on?
(a) Preparing pure radium.
(b) Creating a home for her children.
(c) Creating Pierre's dream lab.
(d) Preparing a new lab.

2. Why do Marie and Pierre believe winning the prize has made them miserable?
(a) They are no longer famous.
(b) They have to leave their homes.
(c) They have to move on to a new research topic.
(d) They get no peace.

3. What does Marie specifically make time to do now that she had not done previously?
(a) Teach others about her research.
(b) Use her name to gather funds.
(c) Travel to support scientific projects.
(d) Spend more time with her family.

4. 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.

5. What tic does Marie develop?
(a) She rubs her burned fingers together.
(b) She picks the skin away from her hands.
(c) She constantly coughs.
(d) She jerks her head from side to side.

Short Answer Questions

1. About how many of the "little Curies" did Marie personally create by the end of the war?

2. What is the one problem with the house in Sceaux?

3. Why doesn't Marie go with Pierre to the Royal Society?

4. How does Marie feel about going on without Pierre?

5. What is the only hierarchy that Marie allows in Brittany when she joins her children?

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