1. 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?
(a) One hundred.
(b) Fifty.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Three.

2. In 1924, New Jersey enacted "a new law that made industrial diseases compensable" (88), but any legal claim had to be filed within what time frame after the point of injury?
(a) Five years.
(b) One year.
(c) Five months.
(d) Two years.

3. By whom was radium discovered?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) Marie and Pierre Curie.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Isaac Newton.

4. When Radium Dial conducted an internal investigation of its workers' health, how many of the dial-painters were told of their results?
(a) Fewer than ten.
(b) Zero.
(c) Fewer than five.
(d) One.

5. What did Sabin von Schocky do when he found that radium had gotten into his left index finger?
(a) He poured milk on it to counteract the radium's effects.
(b) He kept ice on his finger for 24 hours.
(c) He cut the tip of his finger off.
(d) He set his finger on fire.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who appealed to The United States Radium Corporation to monetarily help his patient, Hazel Cuzer, with her medical bills, and was turned down by the company?

2. In early-twentith century popular culture, radium was dubbed as liquid what?

3. From what industry was the term "lip-pointing" (56) inherited?

4. What treatments did Grace Fryer receive that eventually became too painful for her to continue?

5. Katherine Wiley of the Consumer League campaigned to have what disease added to the list of legally compensable occupational diseases?

(see the answer key)

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