During a particularly rigorous winter, it was not unusual for the water to freeze in
the basin in the night; to be able to sleep i was obliged to pile all my clothes on the
bedcovers. in the same room i prepared my meals with the aid of an alcohol lamp
and a few kitchen utensils. these meals were often reduced to bread with a cup of
chocolate, eggs or fruit.
which of the following details from the historical fiction piece "marie curie and the
discovery of radioactivity" supports marie's factual statement?
a. when marie arrived in paris in 1891, she studied physics at the greatest
university in europe, the sorbonne. but how poor she was!
b. when she was growing up in russian-occupied poland, even to study science
was forbidden.
c. a moment later, people passing by the school of physics and chemistry were
treated to a sight not often seen on the fashionable streets of paris in the early
1900s: a bareheaded young woman in a laboratory smock, ripping eagerly into
the pile of heavy sacks and burying her hands in dirt?
d. no one, the curies included, had ever seen this element. still, the husband-and-
wife team had given it a name: radium.