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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By whom was radium discovered?
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) Isaac Newton.
(c) Marie and Pierre Curie.
(d) Albert Einstein.

2. Having hit multiple dead ends in her fight against the United States Radium Corporation, Grace Fryer contacted the lawyer Raymond Berry in May of what year?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1927.
(d) 1921.

3. In 1923, what company acted as Radium Dial's main client, due to its 60% share of the U.S. alarm market?
(a) General Electric.
(b) Masterclock, Inc.
(c) Westclox.
(d) Franklin.

4. As the most valuable substance on earth, how much did a single gram of radium cost in 1917?
(a) $80,000.
(b) $360,000.
(c) $120,000.
(d) $240,000.

5. When the girls at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation started to worry that the paint they used may be dangerous, doctors from New York came and assured the girls that the paint was harmless due to what reason?
(a) The paint would only be harmful in extremely cold working conditions.
(b) There was no phosphorous in the paint.
(c) Radium takes years to harm the human body.
(d) The amount of radium in the paint was miniscule.

Short Answer Questions

1. In January of 1927, Grace Fryer was fitted with a solid steel back brace that she was forbidden to abandon for longer than what period at a time?

2. What role did Josiah Stryker inhabit within the United States Radium Corporation?

3. How old was Hazel Kuzer when she died of radium poisoning?

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

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?

(see the answer key)

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