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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 1925, Radium Dial became the largest dial-painting plant in the United States, supplying how many dials per day?
(a) 4,300.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 3,600.
(d) 1,000.

2. The city of Newark, New Jersey was termed the city of what?
(a) New beginnings.
(b) Opportunity.
(c) Upward movement.
(d) Freedom.

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

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

5. In what year was the first suit filed by a dial-painter, in this case against the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1940.

Short Answer Questions

1. What adjective did the discoverer of radium use often to describe the element?

2. 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?

3. 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?

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

5. Sabin von Schocky held what position at Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?

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