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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Swen Kjaer from the Bureau of Labor Statistics conducted an investigation of Radium Dial's operations in 1925, how many dial-painters at the Ottawa studio were questioned?
(a) Twenty.
(b) One hundred.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Three.

2. Catherine Wolfe Donohue described the panic among the Radium Dial workers after news broke of the New Jersey settlements, saying that "There were meetings at the plant that bordered on" (233) what?
(a) Therapy sessions.
(b) Bedlam.
(c) Quilting bees.
(d) Riots.

3. When Edna Hussman was examined by Dr. Frederick Flinn, what conclusion did he reach that he then shared with Edna Hussman?
(a) She had syphilis.
(b) She was in perfect health.
(c) Her blood was abnormal.
(d) She had arthritic joints.

4. Who had an arm amputated in hopes of saving the rest of her body from being given over to the effects of radium?
(a) Inez Vallat.
(b) Catherine Wolfe Donohue.
(c) Charlotte Purcell.
(d) Marie Rossiter.

5. The city of Newark, New Jersey was termed the city of what?
(a) Opportunity.
(b) Freedom.
(c) New beginnings.
(d) Upward movement.

Short Answer Questions

1. Katherine Wiley, the woman who conducted an independent investigation into the health of the dial-painters at the United States Radium Corporation, worked for what organization?

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

3. What treatments did Grace Fryer receive that eventually became too painful for her to continue?

4. After Peg Looney became too ill to walk, Chuck Hackensmith would take her around the neighborhood in what?

5. By whom was radium discovered?

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