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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What song about radium became a hit after being featured in the Broadway musical Piff! Paff! Pouf!?
(a) Radium Romance.
(b) Radium Racket.
(c) Radium City.
(d) Radium Dance.

3. The city of Newark, New Jersey was termed the city of what?
(a) Upward movement.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Opportunity.
(d) New beginnings.

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

5. To what position was Katherine Schaub promoted after the term of her apprenticeship?
(a) Dial-painter.
(b) Inspector.
(c) Tax adjuster.
(d) Forewoman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Marketed to wealthy clients, a radium lined-jar that could be filled with water to make the water radioactive was recommended in what dose per day?

2. What treatments did Grace Fryer receive that eventually became too painful for her to continue?

3. 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?

4. By whom was Edna Hussman employed when she was examined by Dr. Frederick Flinn?

5. When Swen Kjaer from the Bureau of Labor Statistics conducted an investigation of Radium Dial's operations in 1925, how many dial-painters at the Ottawa studio were questioned?

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