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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 31-45.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Catherine Wolfe Donohue was too ill to continue as a dial-painter at Radium Dial, what job was she given instead?
(a) Cleaning out the compound from the dial-painters' dishes.
(b) Working in the darkroom.
(c) Sweeping the floors of the studio.
(d) Working in the mail room.

2. Arthur Roeder held what position at the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) President.
(b) Company attorney.
(c) Foreman.
(d) Treasurer.

3. Though a normal blood count should be 100%, Marguerite Carlough's blood eventually reached what percentage prior to her death?
(a) 30%.
(b) 20%.
(c) 70%.
(d) 60%.

4. What role did Josiah Stryker inhabit within the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) Founder.
(b) Company lawyer.
(c) President.
(d) Foreman.

5. Where did Catherine Wolfe meet her future husband, Tom Wolfe?
(a) At church.
(b) At school.
(c) At the library.
(d) At a picnic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What diagnosis did Dr. Humphries in Orange provide to Quinta McDonald before he bound her in plaster from "her diaphragm to her knees" (95)?

2. Whose family first joined the lawsuit Marguerite Carlough had filed against the United States Radium Corporation?

3. When Swen Kjaer from the Bureau of Labor Statistics conducted an investigation of Radium Dial's operations in 1925, how many dial-painters at the Ottawa studio were questioned?

4. What crucial piece of information did Raymond Berry uncover about Dr. Frederick Flinn, who was working as an expert witness for several radium companies?

5. What adjective did Arthur Roeder use in a letter to Cecil K. Drinker to describe his own response to Cecil K. Drinker's final findings about the United States Radium Corporation?

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