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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 20-30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what period of time did Swen Kjaer's national study of the radium dial-painting industry last?
(a) Three months.
(b) One year.
(c) Three weeks.
(d) Three years.

2. In what year did Catherine Wolfe and Tom Donohue marry?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1939.

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

4. The list created by Katherine Schaub and Harrison Martland came to be known by what name?
(a) The List of the Vindicated.
(b) The List of the Brave.
(c) The List of the Doomed.
(d) The List of the Courageous.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Once Katherine Schaub started staying at home and refusing to go out, what was the only occasion to get her out of the house?

4. Arthur Roeder held what position at the United States Radium Corporation?

5. Grace Fryer was motivated to take a position at Radium Luminous Materials Corporation by what reason?

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