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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Until 1922, Cecil K. Drinker's department at Harvard was wholly funded by what source?
(a) Government grants.
(b) Commercial firms.
(c) The Drinker family's wealth.
(d) Taxes.

2. When Ella Cruse died from radium poisoning, how many weeks before had she been painting dials at Radium Dial?
(a) Six weeks before.
(b) One week before.
(c) Two weeks before.
(d) Eight weeks before.

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

4. Of everyone described within the narrative of the book, whose breath contained the most radiation upon being tested?
(a) Arthur Roeder.
(b) Katherine Schaub.
(c) Grace Fryer.
(d) Sabin Von Sochocky.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did George Weeks, the Cruse family's lawyer, request several postponements in Ella Cruse's case?

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

3. In what discipline did Cecil K. Drinker work at the time he conducted a study at the United States Radium Corporation?

4. Catherine Wolfe Donohue described the panic among the Radium Dial workers after news broke of the New Jersey settlements, saying that "There were meetings at the plant that bordered on" (233) what?

5. What color was the mark the scientist found on his skin in 1901 after keeping a piece of radium in his pocket, as described in the book's prologue?

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