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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 31-45.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By whom was radium discovered?
(a) Isaac Newton.
(b) Charles Darwin.
(c) Marie and Pierre Curie.
(d) Albert Einstein.

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 paradise.
(b) A warehouse.
(c) A internship site.
(d) A studio.

3. In January of 1927, Grace Fryer was fitted with a solid steel back brace that she was forbidden to abandon for longer than what period at a time?
(a) Two hours.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) Two minutes.
(d) Two days.

4. When George L. Warren, the county physician for Essex County, died on a trolley ride, who replaced him and eventually became a champion for the dial-painters' cause?
(a) Dr. Harrison Martland.
(b) Dr. Roy Schneider.
(c) Dr. Max Schwimmer.
(d) Dr. Elroy Roeder.

5. When Dr. Robert Humphries at the orthopedic hospital examined Edna Hussman's legs for the first time, what did he find?
(a) Her reflexes were abnormal.
(b) There was a sarcoma embedded in her left leg.
(c) She was suffering from partial paralysis.
(d) Her left leg was an inch shorter than her right.

Short Answer Questions

1. Grace Fryer came from a family of how many children?

2. Who took over as superintendent of Radium Dial when Miss Murray died of cancer?

3. Whose family first joined the lawsuit Marguerite Carlough had filed against the United States Radium Corporation?

4. 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?

5. In what year was radium first discovered?

(see the answer key)

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