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

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

3. What color was the mark the scientist found on his skin in 1901 after keeping a piece of radium in his pocket, as described in the book's prologue?
(a) Red.
(b) Black.
(c) Green.
(d) Brown.

4. By whom was Edna Hussman employed when she was examined by Dr. Frederick Flinn?
(a) United States Radium Corporation.
(b) Radium Dial.
(c) Undark.
(d) Luminite.

5. What role did Josiah Stryker inhabit within the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) Founder.
(b) Foreman.
(c) Company lawyer.
(d) President.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Cecil K. Drinker refrain from publishing the report of his findings after his investigation of the United States Radium Company?

2. What amount of money did the first suit filed by a dial-painter request from the United States Radium Corporation?

3. How did Katherine Schaub come to work at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?

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?

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

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