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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Arthur Roeder held what position at the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) Treasurer.
(b) Foreman.
(c) Company attorney.
(d) President.

2. Though during Swen Kjaer's visit to the Radium Dial studio in Ottowa, he saw water bowls being used by the dial-painters to clean their brushes, how does his observation during the visit differ from photographs he is given at a later date?
(a) In the photographs, the bowls contain only radium dust.
(b) In the photographs, there are no bowls at all.
(c) In the photographs, the bowls are empty.
(d) In the photographs, the bowls are turned over.

3. To what hospital was Ella Cruse admitted when her pimple grew in size and caused her entire face to swell?
(a) St. Columba Hospital.
(b) Newark Hospital.
(c) Ottawa City Hospital.
(d) General Hospital.

4. Why did Cecil K. Drinker refrain from publishing the report of his findings after his investigation of the United States Radium Company?
(a) Cecil K. Drinker believed Arthur Roeder should first give consent for publication of the report.
(b) Cecil K. Drinker was by then a pariah in the scientific community and could not find a publisher.
(c) The newspaper who bought the rights to Cecil K. Drinker's report went bankrupt before they could publish the report.
(d) Cecil K. Drinker was paid by the United States Radium Corporation to suppress the report's findings.

5. In what city was St. Columba Church located?
(a) Ottawa.
(b) Orange.
(c) Newark.
(d) Hoboken.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose family filed suit against Radium Dial the day after Radium Dial ran its full-page ad in the Ottawa Daily Times?

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?

3. What was NOT one of the reasons Raymond Berry worried about Judge William Clark being involved in the dial-painters' case?

4. After Peg Looney became too ill to walk, Chuck Hackensmith would take her around the neighborhood in what?

5. When Lloyd Craver tried to convince Katherine Schaub to take a lump sum in lieu of her medical bills being paid by the United States Radium Corporation for the rest of her life, what false reason did he cite?

(see the answer key)

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