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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What position did Anna Rooney hold at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?
(a) Forewoman.
(b) Accountant.
(c) Insurance claims adjuster.
(d) Inspector.

2. The greenish-white luminous paint used to paint the watch dials went by what name?
(a) Luminest.
(b) Lighterous.
(c) Unblack.
(d) Undark.

3. What adjective did Arthur Roeder use in a letter to Cecil K. Drinker to describe his own response to Cecil K. Drinker's final findings about the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) Mystified.
(b) Heartbroken.
(c) Panicked.
(d) Angry.

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

5. By 1925, Radium Dial became the largest dial-painting plant in the United States, supplying how many dials per day?
(a) 2,000.
(b) 4,300.
(c) 3,600.
(d) 1,000.

6. What diagnosis did Dr. Humphries in Orange provide to Quinta McDonald before he bound her in plaster from "her diaphragm to her knees" (95)?
(a) Radium poisoning.
(b) Scoliosis.
(c) Thoracic outlet syndrome.
(d) An arthritic hip.

7. The blood tests Cecil K. Drinker performed on the dial-painters at the United States Radium Corporation elicited his finding that none of the dial-painters had what?
(a) Wholly normal blood.
(b) Hemophilia.
(c) Radium poisoning.
(d) Syphilis.

8. In February of 1925, the creator of the luminous paint, Sabin von Sochocky, wrote to the investigating statistician Dr. Hoffman in order to tell him that "the disease in question is, without doubt" (109) what type of disease?
(a) Coincidental.
(b) Sexually-transmitted.
(c) Innocuous.
(d) Occupational.

9. 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?
(a) Five years.
(b) Two years.
(c) One year.
(d) Five months.

10. On what day in 1917 did Congress vote America into joining World War I?
(a) June 6th.
(b) April 6th.
(c) May 18th.
(d) October 30th.

11. Grace Fryer was motivated to take a position at Radium Luminous Materials Corporation by what reason?
(a) She wanted to work alongside all of her best friends.
(b) She wanted to help with the war effort.
(c) She wanted to be able to buy nice clothes with her earnings.
(d) She wanted to have the prestige of working with the wonder substance of radium.

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

13. What was the name of Katherine Schaub's trainer in her first apprenticeship position at Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?
(a) Marguerite Glacinski.
(b) Grace Fryer.
(c) Catherine Wolfe.
(d) Mae Cubberley.

14. Marketed to wealthy clients, a radium lined-jar that could be filled with water to make the water radioactive was recommended in what dose per day?
(a) 5-7 glasses per day.
(b) 2-3 glasses per day.
(c) 1-2 glasses per day.
(d) 12-14 glasses per day.

15. What type of hair was used in the brushes with which the girls painted the dials at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?
(a) Camel hair.
(b) Rabbit hair.
(c) Human hair.
(d) Horse hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Swen Kjaer from the Bureau of Labor Statistics conducted an investigation of Radium Dial's operations in 1925, how many dial-painters at the Ottawa studio were questioned?

2. 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?

3. What adjective did the discoverer of radium use often to describe the element?

4. 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?

5. In early-twentith century popular culture, radium was dubbed as liquid what?

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