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

2. Arthur Roeder held what position at the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) Foreman.
(b) Treasurer.
(c) Company attorney.
(d) President.

3. Who was the first of the United States dial-painters to file suit against her employer?
(a) Peg Looney.
(b) Grace Fryer.
(c) Marguerite Carlough.
(d) Katherine Schaub.

4. By whom was Edna Hussman employed when she was examined by Dr. Frederick Flinn?
(a) United States Radium Corporation.
(b) Radium Dial.
(c) Luminite.
(d) Undark.

5. The blood tests Cecil K. Drinker performed on the dial-painters at the United States Radium Corporation elicited his finding that none of the dial-painters had what?
(a) Syphilis.
(b) Wholly normal blood.
(c) Hemophilia.
(d) Radium poisoning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sabin von Schocky do when he found that radium had gotten into his left index finger?

2. The city of Newark, New Jersey was termed the city of what?

3. In early-twentith century popular culture, radium was dubbed as liquid what?

4. As the most valuable substance on earth, how much did a single gram of radium cost in 1917?

5. What diagnosis did Dr. Humphries in Orange provide to Quinta McDonald before he bound her in plaster from "her diaphragm to her knees" (95)?

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