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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color was the mark the scientist found on his skin in 1901 after keeping a piece of radium in his pocket, as described in the book's prologue?
(a) Red.
(b) Brown.
(c) Black.
(d) Green.

2. In early-twentith century popular culture, radium was dubbed as liquid what?
(a) Pep.
(b) Luminosity.
(c) Sunshine.
(d) Health.

3. In what city was the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation located?
(a) New York, New York.
(b) Ottawa, Illinois.
(c) Newark, New Jersey.
(d) Orange, California.

4. Who looked pointedly at Grace Fryer on one instance within the studio and warned her not to lip-point, a comment that would later take on great significance in court?
(a) Mollie Maggia.
(b) Sabin von Schocky.
(c) Grace Fryer.
(d) Katherine Schaub.

5. How did Katherine Schaub come to work at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?
(a) She attended the Grand Opening of the building.
(b) She read about the job in a newspaper.
(c) She walked by the building one day on her way to school.
(d) A friend of hers told her about an open position there.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What adjective did the discoverer of radium use often to describe the element?

3. The paper dials painted by Radium Luminous Materials Corporation workers had black backgrounds and numerals of what color?

4. Though during Swen Kjaer's visit to the Radium Dial studio in Ottowa, he saw water bowls being used by the dial-painters to clean their brushes, how does his observation during the visit differ from photographs he is given at a later date?

5. 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?

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