View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The paper dials painted by Radium Luminous Materials Corporation workers had black backgrounds and numerals of what color?
(a) White.
(b) Red.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Green.

2. What diagnosis did Dr. Humphries in Orange provide to Quinta McDonald before he bound her in plaster from "her diaphragm to her knees" (95)?
(a) Radium poisoning.
(b) Scoliosis.
(c) Thoracic outlet syndrome.
(d) An arthritic hip.

3. When Catherine Wolfe Donahue became too ill to make it upstairs in her home, where did Tom Donahue bring her bed?
(a) Onto the open patio.
(b) Into the living room.
(c) Onto the enclosed porch.
(d) To her sister's house.

4. In what discipline did Cecil K. Drinker work at the time he conducted a study at the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) Pharmaceutical safety.
(b) Industrial hygiene.
(c) Communicable disease.
(d) Occupational health.

5. What was the final amount of the lump sum paid by the United States Radium Corporation to each litigant?
(a) $3,600.
(b) $5,000.
(c) $10,000.
(d) $15,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Grace Fryer was motivated to take a position at Radium Luminous Materials Corporation by what reason?

2. On what part of Catherine Wolfe Donahue's body was the hard tumor that eventually grew to the size of a grapefruit?

3. What was the main claim of the full-page ad in the Ottawa Daily Times placed by Radium Dial three days after the New Jersey settlements?

4. Once Tom Wolfe Donahue moved Catherine Wolfe Donahue's bed, where did he sleep?

5. Who was tasked with conducting a nationwide study into the effects of radium poisoning?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 389 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample