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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 46-56.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Prior to joining the Industrial Commission and acting as the judge in the Radium Dial case, what jobs had George B. Marvel held?
(a) Doctor and fiction writer.
(b) Librarian and hot dog vendor.
(c) Lawyer and bank president.
(d) Steel worker and lawyer.

2. Due to radium poisoning, Edna Hussman's legs eventually took on what condition?
(a) Her legs were irrevocably crossed.
(b) Her legs had no feeling in them.
(c) Her legs were perpetually fractured.
(d) Her legs would not bend at the knee.

3. When Katherine Schaub first started working at Radium Luminous Materials Corporation, she was placed into an apprenticeship in what position?
(a) Inspector.
(b) Cafeteria worker.
(c) Floor-sweeper.
(d) Dial-painter.

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

5. What happened when Dr. Walter Dalistsch was asked on the stand whether Catherine Wolfe Donahue's condition was fatal?
(a) Catherine Wolfe Donahue collapsed.
(b) Catherine Wolfe Donahue ran toward the judge.
(c) Catherine Wolfe Donahue's children became hysterical.
(d) Tom Donahue groaned in emotional pain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of everyone described within the narrative of the book, whose breath contained the most radiation upon being tested?

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

3. Part of the allure of the jobs available at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation was that the site of business was called a what, rather than a factory?

4. In what city was the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation located?

5. The author makes a point of writing that the "silver-banded watch that Tom had given her before their marriage" (332), which she placed on her wrist on the first day of the trial, was not what?

(see the answer key)

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