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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What song about radium became a hit after being featured in the Broadway musical Piff! Paff! Pouf!?
(a) Radium Romance.
(b) Radium City.
(c) Radium Dance.
(d) Radium Racket.

3. By whom was radium discovered?
(a) Isaac Newton.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Marie and Pierre Curie.

4. Katherine Wiley of the Consumer League campaigned to have what disease added to the list of legally compensable occupational diseases?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) Phossy jaw.
(c) Syphilis.
(d) Radium necrosis.

5. When George L. Warren, the county physician for Essex County, died on a trolley ride, who replaced him and eventually became a champion for the dial-painters' cause?
(a) Dr. Harrison Martland.
(b) Dr. Max Schwimmer.
(c) Dr. Elroy Roeder.
(d) Dr. Roy Schneider.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Katherine Schaub first started working at Radium Luminous Materials Corporation, she was placed into an apprenticeship in what position?

3. How old was Hazel Kuzer when she died of radium poisoning?

4. What type of hair was used in the brushes with which the girls painted the dials at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?

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

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