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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The author points out that in contrast to the radium testing labs, where the scientists took precautions with radium, the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation studio workers took no precautions. What item is NOT on the list the author gives of the items missing from the studio workers' lives?
(a) Ivory-tipped forceps.
(b) Medical experts.
(c) Lead gloves.
(d) Lead aprons.

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

4. To what position was Katherine Schaub promoted after the term of her apprenticeship?
(a) Forewoman.
(b) Dial-painter.
(c) Tax adjuster.
(d) Inspector.

5. On what day in 1917 did Congress vote America into joining World War I?
(a) October 30th.
(b) April 6th.
(c) June 6th.
(d) May 18th.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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. Cecil K. Drinker's investigative report into radium poisoning stated that radium has a similar chemical nature to what element?

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

5. When John Roach, the deputy commissioner of the Department of Labor, heard that "the report supplied by the firm was a whitewash" (115), he requested a full copy of the study. What reason did Arthur Roeder give when he refused John Roach's request?

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