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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 by then a pariah in the scientific community and could not find a publisher.
(c) The newspaper who bought the rights to Cecil K. Drinker's report went bankrupt before they could publish the report.
(d) Cecil K. Drinker was paid by the United States Radium Corporation to suppress the report's findings.

2. What type of hair was used in the brushes with which the girls painted the dials at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?
(a) Horse hair.
(b) Rabbit hair.
(c) Camel hair.
(d) Human hair.

3. What diagnosis did Dr. Humphries in Orange provide to Quinta McDonald before he bound her in plaster from "her diaphragm to her knees" (95)?
(a) Radium poisoning.
(b) Scoliosis.
(c) An arthritic hip.
(d) Thoracic outlet syndrome.

4. By whom was radium discovered?
(a) Isaac Newton.
(b) Charles Darwin.
(c) Marie and Pierre Curie.
(d) Albert Einstein.

5. What position did Anna Rooney hold at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?
(a) Forewoman.
(b) Accountant.
(c) Inspector.
(d) Insurance claims adjuster.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who once remarked, "There may be a condition into which radium has not yet entered that would produce dire results; everybody handling it should have care," (18) though his advice was ignored by the industry?

3. Whose family first joined the lawsuit Marguerite Carlough had filed against the United States Radium Corporation?

4. In 1924, New Jersey enacted "a new law that made industrial diseases compensable" (88), but any legal claim had to be filed within what time frame after the point of injury?

5. 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?

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