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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Arthur Magid, the lawyer for Radium Dial, claimed that radioactive substances cannot be poisonous, but that they can be what?
(a) Healing.
(b) Harmful.
(c) Abrasive.
(d) Unstable.

2. How many witnesses eventually testified on Catherine Wolfe Donahue's behalf in the case against Radium Dial?
(a) 3.
(b) 21.
(c) 7.
(d) 14.

3. When Rufus Reed had Tom Donahue arrested after their altercation in the street, what was NOT one of the charges he brought against Tom Donahue?
(a) Assault.
(b) Disorderly conduct.
(c) Theft.
(d) Battery.

4. Where did Catherine Wolfe meet her future husband, Tom Wolfe?
(a) At school.
(b) At church.
(c) At the library.
(d) At a picnic.

5. 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?
(a) A warehouse.
(b) A paradise.
(c) A internship site.
(d) A studio.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Katherine Schaub come to work at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?

2. 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?

3. Who was charged with reading aloud the judge's verdict in the case against Radium Dial?

4. How much money did the United States Radium Corporation eventually agree to give Mae Canfield in 1930?

5. How many women participated in the studies of radiation's effect conducted over decades by the Center for Human Radiobiology?

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