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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what behavior of the dial-painters' did Frederick Flinn blame their "tendency to store radium in their bones" (242)?
(a) Their poor eating habits.
(b) Their poor hygiene habits.
(c) Their carelessness with the luminous paint.
(d) Their poor eyesight.

2. Who appealed to The United States Radium Corporation to monetarily help his patient, Hazel Cuzer, with her medical bills, and was turned down by the company?
(a) Dr. Mayweather Marion.
(b) Dr. Anthony Cruz.
(c) Dr. Ernest Miser.
(d) Dr. Theodore Blum.

3. 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?
(a) 18 months.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 3 years.

4. 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) Panicked.
(c) Angry.
(d) Heartbroken.

5. 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) Syphilis.
(c) Radium poisoning.
(d) Hemophilia.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what period of time did Swen Kjaer's national study of the radium dial-painting industry last?

2. What form did the ongoing argument between Cecil K. Drinker and Arthur Roeder take in 1924 after Cecil K. Drinker's investigation resulted in his claim that radium was causing harm to the dial-painters at the United States Radium Corporation?

3. In what discipline did Dr. Frederick Flinn hold a Doctorate degree?

4. Who bought a typewriter with part of her settlement money in hopes of beginning a career as a writer?

5. Until 1922, Cecil K. Drinker's department at Harvard was wholly funded by what source?

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