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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Marketed to wealthy clients, a radium lined-jar that could be filled with water to make the water radioactive was recommended in what dose per day?
(a) 5-7 glasses per day.
(b) 1-2 glasses per day.
(c) 2-3 glasses per day.
(d) 12-14 glasses per day.

2. Why did Cecil K. Drinker refrain from publishing the report of his findings after his investigation of the United States Radium Company?
(a) The newspaper who bought the rights to Cecil K. Drinker's report went bankrupt before they could publish the report.
(b) Cecil K. Drinker was by then a pariah in the scientific community and could not find a publisher.
(c) Cecil K. Drinker believed Arthur Roeder should first give consent for publication of the report.
(d) Cecil K. Drinker was paid by the United States Radium Corporation to suppress the report's findings.

3. Though during Swen Kjaer's visit to the Radium Dial studio in Ottowa, he saw water bowls being used by the dial-painters to clean their brushes, how does his observation during the visit differ from photographs he is given at a later date?
(a) In the photographs, there are no bowls at all.
(b) In the photographs, the bowls contain only radium dust.
(c) In the photographs, the bowls are empty.
(d) In the photographs, the bowls are turned over.

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

5. What adjective did the discoverer of radium use often to describe the element?
(a) Beautiful.
(b) Wondrous.
(c) Enigmatic.
(d) Dangerous.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1923, what company acted as Radium Dial's main client, due to its 60% share of the U.S. alarm market?

2. The greenish-white luminous paint used to paint the watch dials went by what name?

3. By 1925, Radium Dial became the largest dial-painting plant in the United States, supplying how many dials per day?

4. Katherine Wiley of the Consumer League campaigned to have what disease added to the list of legally compensable occupational diseases?

5. In what year was the first suit filed by a dial-painter, in this case against the United States Radium Corporation?

(see the answer key)

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