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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1923, what company acted as Radium Dial's main client, due to its 60% share of the U.S. alarm market?
(a) Masterclock, Inc.
(b) Westclox.
(c) Franklin.
(d) General Electric.

2. Part of the allure of the jobs available at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation was that the site of business was called a what, rather than a factory?
(a) A warehouse.
(b) A studio.
(c) A paradise.
(d) A internship site.

3. Until 1922, Cecil K. Drinker's department at Harvard was wholly funded by what source?
(a) Taxes.
(b) Government grants.
(c) Commercial firms.
(d) The Drinker family's wealth.

4. 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?
(a) Radium poisoning.
(b) Syphilis.
(c) Wholly normal blood.
(d) Hemophilia.

5. What diagnosis did Dr. Humphries in Orange provide to Quinta McDonald before he bound her in plaster from "her diaphragm to her knees" (95)?
(a) Scoliosis.
(b) Radium poisoning.
(c) An arthritic hip.
(d) Thoracic outlet syndrome.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Swen Kjaer from the Bureau of Labor Statistics conducted an investigation of Radium Dial's operations in 1925, how many dial-painters at the Ottawa studio were questioned?

2. In 1926, a law was passed that formally termed radium necrosis as what type of disease?

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

4. What period of time passed between the time Grace Fryer read about the United States Radium Corporation's first paid settlements and the filing of her own lawsuit against the United States Radium Corporation?

5. 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?

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