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

2. Grace Fryer came from a family of how many children?
(a) 9.
(b) 10.
(c) 8.
(d) 6.

3. When Swen Kjaer from the Bureau of Labor Statistics conducted an investigation of Radium Dial's scientific laboratories in 1925, what two safeguards did he find the scientists using in their work with radium?
(a) Lead screens and vacations from work.
(b) Lead aprons and safety glasses.
(c) Protective suits and gloves.
(d) Safety glasses and limited working hours.

4. What adjective did Arthur Roeder use in a letter to Cecil K. Drinker to describe his own response to Cecil K. Drinker's final findings about the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) Heartbroken.
(b) Angry.
(c) Mystified.
(d) Panicked.

5. In 1926, a law was passed that formally termed radium necrosis as what type of disease?
(a) Communicable.
(b) Industrial.
(c) Deadly.
(d) Compensable.

Short Answer Questions

1. Marguerite Carlough died in the early morning hours of what holiday in 1925?

2. What position did Anna Rooney hold at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?

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. When the Westclox company hit a new production high of 1.5 million luminous watches in 1926, what percentage of the watches were painted by Radium Dial?

5. What form did the ongoing argument between Cecil K. Drinker and Arthur Roeder take in 1924 after Cecil K. Drinker's investigation resulted in his claim that radium was causing harm to the dial-painters at the United States Radium Corporation?

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