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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who appealed to The United States Radium Corporation to monetarily help his patient, Hazel Cuzer, with her medical bills, and was turned down by the company?
(a) Dr. Theodore Blum.
(b) Dr. Anthony Cruz.
(c) Dr. Ernest Miser.
(d) Dr. Mayweather Marion.

2. Most dial-painters in the United States were the daughters and granddaughters of whom?
(a) Immigrants.
(b) Scientists.
(c) Socialists.
(d) Industrialists.

3. Katherine Wiley of the Consumer League campaigned to have what disease added to the list of legally compensable occupational diseases?
(a) Radium necrosis.
(b) Phossy jaw.
(c) Syphilis.
(d) Pneumonia.

4. By whom was Dr. Frederick Flinn paid when he researched the possible harm being caused by various companies' use of radium?
(a) By the United States Department of Labor.
(b) By the unions.
(c) By the dial-painting victims.
(d) By the companies being investigated.

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?
(a) 100%.
(b) 80%.
(c) 30%.
(d) 50%.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what day in 1917 did Congress vote America into joining World War I?

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

3. From what industry was the term "lip-pointing" (56) inherited?

4. When Edna Hussman stumbled on the street and her husband helped her to walk to the hospital, what was the doctor's diagnosis?

5. Who was the first of the United States dial-painters to file suit against her employer?

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