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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of Katherine Schaub's trainer in her first apprenticeship position at Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?
(a) Grace Fryer.
(b) Catherine Wolfe.
(c) Marguerite Glacinski.
(d) Mae Cubberley.

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?
(a) Angry.
(b) Panicked.
(c) Heartbroken.
(d) Mystified.

3. Whose family first joined the lawsuit Marguerite Carlough had filed against the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) Helen Quinlan.
(b) Frances Splettstocher.
(c) Hazel Kuzer.
(d) Nellie Quinlan.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From what industry was the term "lip-pointing" (56) inherited?

2. 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?

3. When Cecil K. Drinker found out that the United States Radium Corporation had suppressed his report, he made a deal with Arthur Roeder that he would not publish the report as long as Arthur Roeder immediately took what action?

4. When Swen Kjaer from the Bureau of Labor Statistics conducted an investigation of Radium Dial's operations in 1925, how many dial-painters at the Ottawa studio were questioned?

5. The radium powder at Radium Luminous Materials Corporation was mixed with what substance in order to create the luminous paint used to paint the dials?

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