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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was radium such a scarce resource?
(a) Only one location in the world existed from which the radium could be extracted.
(b) Radium destroyed itself very quickly upon coming into contact with oxygen.
(c) Radium was very difficult to extract from its source.
(d) The main continent on which radium could be found was Antarctica.

2. Who appealed to The United States Radium Corporation to monetarily help his patient, Hazel Cuzer, with her medical bills, and was turned down by the company?
(a) Dr. Mayweather Marion.
(b) Dr. Anthony Cruz.
(c) Dr. Ernest Miser.
(d) Dr. Theodore Blum.

3. What amount of money did the first suit filed by a dial-painter request from the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) $50,000.
(b) $75,000.
(c) $90,000.
(d) $30,000.

4. By whom was Dr. Frederick Flinn paid when he researched the possible harm being caused by various companies' use of radium?
(a) By the United States Department of Labor.
(b) By the unions.
(c) By the dial-painting victims.
(d) By the companies being investigated.

5. Under state law in the early twentieth century in New Jersey, the Department of Labor had no authority to stop an industrial process even if it was what?
(a) Polluting the surrounding areas.
(b) Profitable.
(c) Costly.
(d) Harmful.

Short Answer Questions

1. When John Roach, the deputy commissioner of the Department of Labor, heard that "the report supplied by the firm was a whitewash" (115), he requested a full copy of the study. What reason did Arthur Roeder give when he refused John Roach's request?

2. Whose family first joined the lawsuit Marguerite Carlough had filed against the United States Radium Corporation?

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

4. 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?

5. What color was the mark the scientist found on his skin in 1901 after keeping a piece of radium in his pocket, as described in the book's prologue?

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