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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 46-56.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which two executives from Radium Dial attended the national radium conference in December of 1928?
(a) Arthur Roeder and Gene Wiley.
(b) Joseph Kelly and Harrison Martland.
(c) Raymond Berry and Leonard Grossman.
(d) Joseph Kelly and Rufus Fordyce.

2. What was inside the jewelry box that Catherine Wolfe Donahue brought to the stand with her in order to show the court?
(a) Fragments of Grace Fryer's jawbone.
(b) Fragments of her jawbone.
(c) Fourteen pearls.
(d) A piece of her vertebrae.

3. What song about radium became a hit after being featured in the Broadway musical Piff! Paff! Pouf!?
(a) Radium Racket.
(b) Radium Romance.
(c) Radium Dance.
(d) Radium City.

4. When Grace Fryer visited Dr. Robert Humphries, what adjective did he use to describe Grace's vertebrae upon examining her x-rays?
(a) Misaligned.
(b) Pulverized.
(c) Normal.
(d) Crushed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what discipline did Cecil K. Drinker work at the time he conducted a study at the United States Radium Corporation?

2. Most of the dial-painters who received settlements from the United States Radium Corporation did what during the following summer?

3. When the Westclox company hit a new production high of 1.5 million luminous watches in 1926, what percentage of the watches were painted by Radium Dial?

4. What adjective did the discoverer of radium use often to describe the element?

5. Who had an arm amputated in hopes of saving the rest of her body from being given over to the effects of radium?

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