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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12-19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Innocuous.
(c) Sexually-transmitted.
(d) Occupational.

2. 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) 1-2 glasses per day.
(b) 12-14 glasses per day.
(c) 2-3 glasses per day.
(d) 5-7 glasses per day.

3. The radium powder at Radium Luminous Materials Corporation was mixed with what substance in order to create the luminous paint used to paint the dials?
(a) Zinc sulfide.
(b) Zinc oxide.
(c) Ammonia.
(d) Phosphorous.

4. When the girls at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation started to worry that the paint they used may be dangerous, doctors from New York came and assured the girls that the paint was harmless due to what reason?
(a) The amount of radium in the paint was miniscule.
(b) Radium takes years to harm the human body.
(c) The paint would only be harmful in extremely cold working conditions.
(d) There was no phosphorous in the paint.

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?
(a) Cecil K. Drinker would have to grant permission for the report to be sent.
(b) The results could be damaging to the United States Radium Corporation's business dealings.
(c) The active lawsuit pending against the company prohibited any sharing of documents.
(d) The report had been lost.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. How old was Hazel Kuzer when she died of radium poisoning?

4. On what street was Radium Luminous Materials Corporation located?

5. 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?

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