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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) Disease control.
(b) Industrial waste.
(c) Statistics.
(d) Chemistry.

3. Catherine Wolfe Donohue described the panic among the Radium Dial workers after news broke of the New Jersey settlements, saying that "There were meetings at the plant that bordered on" (233) what?
(a) Bedlam.
(b) Therapy sessions.
(c) Quilting bees.
(d) Riots.

4. When Cecil K. Drinker found out that the United States Radium Corporation had suppressed his report, he made a deal with Arthur Roeder that he would not publish the report as long as Arthur Roeder immediately took what action?
(a) Paid Cecil K. Drinker $50,000.
(b) Instituted a set of safety measures to protect the dial-painters.
(c) Sent a full copy of the report to the New York Times for publication.
(d) Sent a full copy of the report to John Roach.

5. As the most valuable substance on earth, how much did a single gram of radium cost in 1917?
(a) $120,000.
(b) $360,000.
(c) $80,000.
(d) $240,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Marie Rossiter testified on the stand that Rufus Reed had told the dial-painters that radium would do what for them?

2. When Swen Kjaer from the Bureau of Labor Statistics conducted an investigation of Radium Dial's scientific laboratories in 1925, what two safeguards did he find the scientists using in their work with radium?

3. For how long did The United States Radium Corporation fight the first lawsuits filed by dial-painters before they settled with the workers out of court?

4. How many surgeries did Grace Fryer ultimately have performed on her jaw?

5. Why was radium such a scarce resource?

(see the answer key)

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