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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 was paid by the United States Radium Corporation to suppress the report's findings.
(d) Cecil K. Drinker believed Arthur Roeder should first give consent for publication of the report.

2. 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) 12-14 glasses per day.
(b) 5-7 glasses per day.
(c) 1-2 glasses per day.
(d) 2-3 glasses per day.

3. Grace Fryer came from a family of how many children?
(a) 8.
(b) 9.
(c) 6.
(d) 10.

4. What type of hair was used in the brushes with which the girls painted the dials at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?
(a) Rabbit hair.
(b) Camel hair.
(c) Human hair.
(d) Horse hair.

5. How old was Katherine Schaub when she first started working at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?
(a) 11.
(b) 14.
(c) 18.
(d) 16.

Short Answer Questions

1. Katherine Wiley, the woman who conducted an independent investigation into the health of the dial-painters at the United States Radium Corporation, worked for what organization?

2. Who looked pointedly at Grace Fryer on one instance within the studio and warned her not to lip-point, a comment that would later take on great significance in court?

3. Until 1922, Cecil K. Drinker's department at Harvard was wholly funded by what source?

4. What amount of money did the first suit filed by a dial-painter request from the United States Radium Corporation?

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

(see the answer key)

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