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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What song about radium became a hit after being featured in the Broadway musical Piff! Paff! Pouf!?
(a) Radium Dance.
(b) Radium Racket.
(c) Radium Romance.
(d) Radium City.

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

3. Katherine Wiley, the woman who conducted an independent investigation into the health of the dial-painters at the United States Radium Corporation, worked for what organization?
(a) The Justice League.
(b) The Consumers League.
(c) The League of Women Voters.
(d) The Workers' Rights League.

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

5. Most dial-painters in the United States were the daughters and granddaughters of whom?
(a) Immigrants.
(b) Scientists.
(c) Industrialists.
(d) Socialists.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was radium such a scarce resource?

2. When Swen Kjaer from the Bureau of Labor Statistics conducted an investigation of Radium Dial's scientific laboratories in 1925, what two safeguards did he find the scientists using in their work with radium?

3. 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?

4. How old was Katherine Schaub when she first started working at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?

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

(see the answer key)

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