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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Cecil K. Drinker refrain from publishing the report of his findings after his investigation of the United States Radium Company?
(a) The newspaper who bought the rights to Cecil K. Drinker's report went bankrupt before they could publish the report.
(b) Cecil K. Drinker was paid by the United States Radium Corporation to suppress the report's findings.
(c) Cecil K. Drinker believed Arthur Roeder should first give consent for publication of the report.
(d) Cecil K. Drinker was by then a pariah in the scientific community and could not find a publisher.

2. What diagnosis did Dr. Humphries in Orange provide to Quinta McDonald before he bound her in plaster from "her diaphragm to her knees" (95)?
(a) Thoracic outlet syndrome.
(b) Scoliosis.
(c) An arthritic hip.
(d) Radium poisoning.

3. In what decade of life was Raymond Berry, Grace Fryer's lawyer, when she first contacted him?
(a) Twenties.
(b) Thirties.
(c) Fifties.
(d) Seventies.

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

5. Of everyone described within the narrative of the book, whose breath contained the most radiation upon being tested?
(a) Arthur Roeder.
(b) Grace Fryer.
(c) Sabin Von Sochocky.
(d) Katherine Schaub.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the full-page Ottawa Daily Times ad placed by Radium Dial three days after the New Jersey settlements, on what did they place the blame for the New Jersey dial-painters' afflictions?

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

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

4. Prior to joining the Industrial Commission and acting as the judge in the Radium Dial case, what jobs had George B. Marvel held?

5. Arthur Magid, the lawyer for Radium Dial, claimed that radioactive substances cannot be poisonous, but that they can be what?

(see the answer key)

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