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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 31-45.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Cecil K. Drinker found out that the United States Radium Corporation had suppressed his report, he made a deal with Arthur Roeder that he would not publish the report as long as Arthur Roeder immediately took what action?
(a) Sent a full copy of the report to John Roach.
(b) Sent a full copy of the report to the New York Times for publication.
(c) Paid Cecil K. Drinker $50,000.
(d) Instituted a set of safety measures to protect the dial-painters.

2. 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) 50%.
(b) 30%.
(c) 100%.
(d) 80%.

3. The radium powder at Radium Luminous Materials Corporation was mixed with what substance in order to create the luminous paint used to paint the dials?
(a) Ammonia.
(b) Zinc sulfide.
(c) Zinc oxide.
(d) Phosphorous.

4. Katherine Wiley launched a campaign to amend what type of law that affected the dial-painters?
(a) The industrial compensation law.
(b) The poison control law.
(c) The environmental hazards law.
(d) The disability rights law.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Dr. Harrison Martland believed that radium was notoriously less what than mesothorium?

3. In the full-page Ottawa Daily Times ad placed by Radium Dial three days after the New Jersey settlements, on what did they place the blame for the New Jersey dial-painters' afflictions?

4. 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?

5. What arrangements did Rufus Reed make for Peg Looney when she collapsed at work at Radium Dial in August of 1929?

(see the answer key)

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