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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 20-30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Hemophilia.
(b) Wholly normal blood.
(c) Radium poisoning.
(d) Syphilis.

2. Why did Cecil K. Drinker refrain from publishing the report of his findings after his investigation of the United States Radium Company?
(a) Cecil K. Drinker believed Arthur Roeder should first give consent for publication of the report.
(b) Cecil K. Drinker was paid by the United States Radium Corporation to suppress the report's findings.
(c) Cecil K. Drinker was by then a pariah in the scientific community and could not find a publisher.
(d) The newspaper who bought the rights to Cecil K. Drinker's report went bankrupt before they could publish the report.

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

4. What crucial piece of information did Raymond Berry uncover about Dr. Frederick Flinn, who was working as an expert witness for several radium companies?
(a) He had no medical license.
(b) He had never examined even one of the plaintiffs.
(c) He had no chemistry experience.
(d) He was cheating on his wife.

5. Whose family first joined the lawsuit Marguerite Carlough had filed against the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) Nellie Quinlan.
(b) Helen Quinlan.
(c) Hazel Kuzer.
(d) Frances Splettstocher.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Ella Cruse died from radium poisoning, how many weeks before had she been painting dials at Radium Dial?

2. When the Westclox company hit a new production high of 1.5 million luminous watches in 1926, what percentage of the watches were painted by Radium Dial?

3. 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?

4. On what day in 1917 did Congress vote America into joining World War I?

5. In what decade of life was Raymond Berry, Grace Fryer's lawyer, when she first contacted him?

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