Details from the historical fiction piece "marie curie and the discovery of radioactivity"
supports marie's factual statement?
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.

a. in the winter, it was so cold that she emptied her closet, piling the clothes on the bed
so she'd be warm enough to sleep.

b. no one, the curies included, had ever seen this element. still, the husband-and-wife
team had given it a name: radium

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. she also met the man who soon became her husband-pierre curie, a brilliant young
physicist as promising (and poor) as marie. 100 points