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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Katherine Wiley of the Consumer League campaigned to have what disease added to the list of legally compensable occupational diseases?
(a) Syphilis.
(b) Radium necrosis.
(c) Phossy jaw.
(d) Pneumonia.

2. In what year was the first suit filed by a dial-painter, in this case against the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1931.

3. 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?
(a) Phosphorous.
(b) Zinc sulfide.
(c) Zinc oxide.
(d) Ammonia.

4. 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?
(a) Disease control.
(b) Industrial waste.
(c) Chemistry.
(d) Statistics.

5. In January of 1924, what ultimatum did Dr. Barry give the girls he treated who worked at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?
(a) He said that if they did not pay him in full, he would refuse to treat them.
(b) He said if they did not quit their jobs, he would refuse to treat them.
(c) He said that if they did not file suit against the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation, he would refuse to treat them.
(d) He said that if they did not start brushing their teeth regularly, he would refuse to treat them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sabin von Schocky do when he found that radium had gotten into his left index finger?

2. Under state law in the early twentieth century in New Jersey, the Department of Labor had no authority to stop an industrial process even if it was what?

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

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

5. When Katherine Schaub first started working at Radium Luminous Materials Corporation, she was placed into an apprenticeship in what position?

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