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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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. Theodore Blum.
(d) Dr. Anthony Cruz.

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

3. As the most valuable substance on earth, how much did a single gram of radium cost in 1917?
(a) $240,000.
(b) $80,000.
(c) $120,000.
(d) $360,000.

4. 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?
(a) One hundred.
(b) Three.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Twenty.

5. On what street was Radium Luminous Materials Corporation located?
(a) Third Street.
(b) Ninety-first Street.
(c) Tenth Street.
(d) Fourth Street.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In what year was radium first discovered?

3. Most dial-painters in the United States were the daughters and granddaughters of whom?

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

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

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