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Maria Skłodowska-Curie

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 5mins

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Class
Date
1.

Maria was a:

a)

a physicist and a chemist

b)

a physicist and a biologist

c)

a chemist and a mathematist

2.

She was best known for:

a)

her studies of radiation

b)

her studies in medicine

c)

her work as a professor

3.

Her family name was:

a)

Sosnowska

b)

Skłodowska

c)

Steczkowska

4.

She was born in

a)

Paris, France

b)

Cracow, Poland

c)

Warsaw, Poland

5.

Why didn't she attend the University of Warsaw:

a)

the university would not accept women

b)

She wasn't a good student

c)

She was too poor

6.

What way did she prepare for her studies in France?

a)

She taught children

b)

She helped her sister

c)

She studied on her own during the day and tutored at night

7.

Pierre Curie was:

a)

a doctor

b)

a scientist

c)

her sister's friend

8.

For her topic of research while working towards her doctorate in physics, She decided to study:

a)

uranium

b)

radium

c)

carbon dioxide

9.

Maria called materials that produced X-rays:

a)

non-metals

b)

radioactive

c)

fluorescent

10.

Maria and Pierre discovered the two new radioactive elements:

a)

polonium and uranium

b)

polonium and radium

c)

uranium and radium

11.

Maria was the first woman in Europe to earn doctorate in:

a)

physics

b)

biology

c)

chemistry

12.

She was the first woman to be a professor at:

a)

the University of Paris

b)

The University of Warsaw

c)

The University of Cracow

13.

Maria received the Nobel Prizes in:

a)

physics

b)

chemistry

c)

physics and chemistry

14.

How many wounded soldiers were treated during the WWI by battlefield surgeons in mobile X-ray trucks created by Maria Curie?

a)

the number is not known

b)

nearly a million soldiers

c)

over a millon soldiers

15.

Marie's research laboratory, now called The Curie Institute is one of the leading:

a)

science institute

b)

medical institute

c)

chemistry institute