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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The greenish-white luminous paint used to paint the watch dials went by what name?
(a) Undark.
(b) Lighterous.
(c) Unblack.
(d) Luminest.

2. Marguerite Carlough died in the early morning hours of what holiday in 1925?
(a) Labor Day.
(b) Boxing Day.
(c) Valentine's Day.
(d) Halloween.

3. After four years of trying to have a child, Albina Maggia experienced what complication during the birth of the baby she had brought to full term?
(a) It was a breech birth.
(b) The child was stillborn.
(c) The child was born a paraplegic.
(d) She had to receive a Caesarean section.

4. The city of Newark, New Jersey was termed the city of what?
(a) New beginnings.
(b) Opportunity.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Upward movement.

5. When The United States Radium Corporation settled its first lawsuits filed by dial-painters, how many former workers were paid by the company?
(a) Nine.
(b) Thirteen.
(c) Three.
(d) Twenty-four.

Short Answer Questions

1. On April 2, 1925, Arthur Roeder invited Frederick Hoffman to the Orange plant to use the new signs he had erected that warned workers not to put the radium paint-laden brushes in their mouths. In what field was Frederick Hoffman employed?

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

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

4. Though a normal blood count should be 100%, Marguerite Carlough's blood eventually reached what percentage prior to her death?

5. 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?

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