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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12-19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When John Roach, the deputy commissioner of the Department of Labor, heard that "the report supplied by the firm was a whitewash" (115), he requested a full copy of the study. What reason did Arthur Roeder give when he refused John Roach's request?
(a) The active lawsuit pending against the company prohibited any sharing of documents.
(b) The report had been lost.
(c) The results could be damaging to the United States Radium Corporation's business dealings.
(d) Cecil K. Drinker would have to grant permission for the report to be sent.

2. Who once remarked, "There may be a condition into which radium has not yet entered that would produce dire results; everybody handling it should have care," (18) though his advice was ignored by the industry?
(a) Nikola Tesla.
(b) Thomas Edison.
(c) Anna Mooney.
(d) Isaac Newton.

3. 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?
(a) Mystified.
(b) Angry.
(c) Heartbroken.
(d) Panicked.

4. In what year was radium first discovered?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1882.
(d) 1898.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author points out that in contrast to the radium testing labs, where the scientists took precautions with radium, the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation studio workers took no precautions. What item is NOT on the list the author gives of the items missing from the studio workers' lives?

2. On what day in 1917 did Congress vote America into joining World War I?

3. In what year was the first suit filed by a dial-painter, in this case against the United States Radium Corporation?

4. As the most valuable substance on earth, how much did a single gram of radium cost in 1917?

5. On April 2, 1925, Arthur Roeder invited Frederick Hoffman to the Orange plant to use the new signs he had erected that warned workers not to put the radium paint-laden brushes in their mouths. In what field was Frederick Hoffman employed?

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