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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) There was no phosphorous in the paint.
(b) The amount of radium in the paint was miniscule.
(c) The paint would only be harmful in extremely cold working conditions.
(d) Radium takes years to harm the human body.

2. Grace Fryer came from a family of how many children?
(a) 10.
(b) 6.
(c) 9.
(d) 8.

3. The author points out that in contrast to the radium testing labs, where the scientists took precautions with radium, the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation studio workers took no precautions. What item is NOT on the list the author gives of the items missing from the studio workers' lives?
(a) Medical experts.
(b) Lead aprons.
(c) Lead gloves.
(d) Ivory-tipped forceps.

4. 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. Ernest Miser.
(c) Dr. Anthony Cruz.
(d) Dr. Theodore Blum.

5. Until 1922, Cecil K. Drinker's department at Harvard was wholly funded by what source?
(a) Taxes.
(b) Commercial firms.
(c) The Drinker family's wealth.
(d) Government grants.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Edna Hussman was examined by Dr. Frederick Flinn, what conclusion did he reach that he then shared with Edna Hussman?

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

3. Katherine Wiley of the Consumer League campaigned to have what disease added to the list of legally compensable occupational diseases?

4. What type of hair was used in the brushes with which the girls painted the dials at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?

5. The paper dials painted by Radium Luminous Materials Corporation workers had black backgrounds and numerals of what color?

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