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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What types of product were produced by the Waterbury Company in Connecticut?
(a) Batteries.
(b) Pocket watches.
(c) Paints.
(d) Clocks.

3. Who once remarked, "There may be a condition into which radium has not yet entered that would produce dire results; everybody handling it should have care," (18) though his advice was ignored by the industry?
(a) Isaac Newton.
(b) Nikola Tesla.
(c) Anna Mooney.
(d) Thomas Edison.

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

5. By whom was Edna Hussman employed when she was examined by Dr. Frederick Flinn?
(a) United States Radium Corporation.
(b) Radium Dial.
(c) Undark.
(d) Luminite.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Before dipping their brushes into the radium, what action were the dial-painters at Radium Luminous Materials Corporation instructed to take?

3. 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?

4. In 1924, New Jersey enacted "a new law that made industrial diseases compensable" (88), but any legal claim had to be filed within what time frame after the point of injury?

5. For how long did The United States Radium Corporation fight the first lawsuits filed by dial-painters before they settled with the workers out of court?

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