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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Katherine Schaub when she first started working at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?
(a) 16.
(b) 18.
(c) 14.
(d) 11.

2. On what day in 1917 did Congress vote America into joining World War I?
(a) June 6th.
(b) October 30th.
(c) May 18th.
(d) April 6th.

3. 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?
(a) Lead aprons and safety glasses.
(b) Lead screens and vacations from work.
(c) Protective suits and gloves.
(d) Safety glasses and limited working hours.

4. 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?
(a) Sent a full copy of the report to the New York Times for publication.
(b) Sent a full copy of the report to John Roach.
(c) Paid Cecil K. Drinker $50,000.
(d) Instituted a set of safety measures to protect the dial-painters.

5. The author points out that in contrast to the radium testing labs, where the scientists took precautions with radium, the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation studio workers took no precautions. What item is NOT on the list the author gives of the items missing from the studio workers' lives?
(a) Lead aprons.
(b) Medical experts.
(c) Ivory-tipped forceps.
(d) Lead gloves.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sabin von Schocky held what position at Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?

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

3. What adjective did Arthur Roeder use in a letter to Cecil K. Drinker to describe his own response to Cecil K. Drinker's final findings about the United States Radium Corporation?

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

5. Why was radium such a scarce resource?

(see the answer key)

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