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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On April 2, 1925, Arthur Roeder invited Frederick Hoffman to the Orange plant to use the new signs he had erected that warned workers not to put the radium paint-laden brushes in their mouths. In what field was Frederick Hoffman employed?
(a) Chemistry.
(b) Industrial waste.
(c) Disease control.
(d) Statistics.

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

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) $90,000.
(c) $75,000.
(d) $30,000.

4. Most dial-painters in the United States were the daughters and granddaughters of whom?
(a) Socialists.
(b) Scientists.
(c) Immigrants.
(d) Industrialists.

5. In what city was the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation located?
(a) New York, New York.
(b) Ottawa, Illinois.
(c) Orange, California.
(d) Newark, New Jersey.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. In what year was radium first discovered?

5. Grace Fryer came from a family of how many children?

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