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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 20-30.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 18 months.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 3 years.

3. 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?
(a) It was a breech birth.
(b) The child was stillborn.
(c) The child was born a paraplegic.
(d) She had to receive a Caesarean section.

4. When Grace Fryer visited Dr. Robert Humphries, what adjective did he use to describe Grace's vertebrae upon examining her x-rays?
(a) Crushed.
(b) Normal.
(c) Misaligned.
(d) Pulverized.

5. In what year was the first suit filed by a dial-painter, in this case against the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1940.

Short Answer Questions

1. By whom was radium discovered?

2. When Katherine Schaub first started working at Radium Luminous Materials Corporation, she was placed into an apprenticeship in what position?

3. In 1926, a law was passed that formally termed radium necrosis as what type of disease?

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

5. When the Westclox company hit a new production high of 1.5 million luminous watches in 1926, what percentage of the watches were painted by Radium Dial?

(see the answer key)

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