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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what behavior of the dial-painters' did Frederick Flinn blame their "tendency to store radium in their bones" (242)?
(a) Their carelessness with the luminous paint.
(b) Their poor eyesight.
(c) Their poor eating habits.
(d) Their poor hygiene habits.

2. 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) Chemistry.
(b) Statistics.
(c) Disease control.
(d) Industrial waste.

3. In 1923, what company acted as Radium Dial's main client, due to its 60% share of the U.S. alarm market?
(a) General Electric.
(b) Westclox.
(c) Masterclock, Inc.
(d) Franklin.

4. Who was the appointed physician for the five girls who won settlements from the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) Raymond Berry.
(b) Edward Krumbhaar.
(c) James Ewing.
(d) Lloyd Craver.

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) Lead gloves.
(c) Medical experts.
(d) Ivory-tipped forceps.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what day in 1917 did Congress vote America into joining World War I?

2. How much money did the United States Radium Corporation eventually agree to give Mae Canfield in 1930?

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

4. What was the final amount of the lump sum paid by the United States Radium Corporation to each litigant?

5. Why did Cecil K. Drinker refrain from publishing the report of his findings after his investigation of the United States Radium Company?

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