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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 20-30.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. By whom was radium discovered?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) Charles Darwin.
(c) Marie and Pierre Curie.
(d) Isaac Newton.
2. What newspaper was "arguably the most powerful newspaper in America at the time" (195) and helped to spread the word about the dial-painters' plight?
(a) The Chicago Sun Times.
(b) The Newark Tribune.
(c) The World.
(d) The New York Times.
3. Who looked pointedly at Grace Fryer on one instance within the studio and warned her not to lip-point, a comment that would later take on great significance in court?
(a) Sabin von Schocky.
(b) Mollie Maggia.
(c) Katherine Schaub.
(d) Grace Fryer.
4. 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) Sexually-transmitted.
(b) Occupational.
(c) Coincidental.
(d) Innocuous.
5. How old was Katherine Schaub when she first started working at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?
(a) 14.
(b) 16.
(c) 18.
(d) 11.
Short Answer Questions
1. To what position was Katherine Schaub promoted after the term of her apprenticeship?
2. In what decade of life was Raymond Berry, Grace Fryer's lawyer, when she first contacted him?
3. On April 2, 1925, Arthur Roeder invited Frederick Hoffman to the Orange plant to use the new signs he had erected that warned workers not to put the radium paint-laden brushes in their mouths. In what field was Frederick Hoffman employed?
4. When Edna Hussman was examined by Dr. Frederick Flinn, what conclusion did he reach that he then shared with Edna Hussman?
5. When John Roach, the deputy commissioner of the Department of Labor, heard that "the report supplied by the firm was a whitewash" (115), he requested a full copy of the study. What reason did Arthur Roeder give when he refused John Roach's request?
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