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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 46-56.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Katherine Wiley, the woman who conducted an independent investigation into the health of the dial-painters at the United States Radium Corporation, worked for what organization?
(a) The League of Women Voters.
(b) The Workers' Rights League.
(c) The Consumers League.
(d) The Justice League.

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

3. What happened when Dr. Walter Dalistsch was asked on the stand whether Catherine Wolfe Donahue's condition was fatal?
(a) Catherine Wolfe Donahue's children became hysterical.
(b) Catherine Wolfe Donahue collapsed.
(c) Tom Donahue groaned in emotional pain.
(d) Catherine Wolfe Donahue ran toward the judge.

4. What type of hair was used in the brushes with which the girls painted the dials at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?
(a) Camel hair.
(b) Human hair.
(c) Horse hair.
(d) Rabbit hair.

5. Most dial-painters in the United States were the daughters and granddaughters of whom?
(a) Immigrants.
(b) Industrialists.
(c) Scientists.
(d) Socialists.

Short Answer Questions

1. After four years of trying to have a child, Albina Maggia experienced what complication during the birth of the baby she had brought to full term?

2. What song about radium became a hit after being featured in the Broadway musical Piff! Paff! Pouf!?

3. Who gave her father $2,000 to pay off his mortgage once she had received her settlement?

4. Which two executives from Radium Dial attended the national radium conference in December of 1928?

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

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