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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 was radium such a scarce resource?
(a) Radium destroyed itself very quickly upon coming into contact with oxygen.
(b) Radium was very difficult to extract from its source.
(c) The main continent on which radium could be found was Antarctica.
(d) Only one location in the world existed from which the radium could be extracted.

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

3. Whose family first joined the lawsuit Marguerite Carlough had filed against the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) Helen Quinlan.
(b) Hazel Kuzer.
(c) Frances Splettstocher.
(d) Nellie Quinlan.

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

5. 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?
(a) Harmful.
(b) Polluting the surrounding areas.
(c) Profitable.
(d) Costly.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Cecil K. Drinker found out that the United States Radium Corporation had suppressed his report, he made a deal with Arthur Roeder that he would not publish the report as long as Arthur Roeder immediately took what action?

2. From what industry was the term "lip-pointing" (56) inherited?

3. 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?

4. Who was the first of the United States dial-painters to file suit against her employer?

5. 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?

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