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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Due to radium poisoning, Edna Hussman's legs eventually took on what condition?
(a) Her legs were irrevocably crossed.
(b) Her legs were perpetually fractured.
(c) Her legs would not bend at the knee.
(d) Her legs had no feeling in them.

2. To whom did Katherine Schaub write a sincere letter of thanks in the summer of 1928?
(a) Raymond Berry.
(b) Arthur Roeder.
(c) Mollie Maggia.
(d) Frederick Flinn.

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) Nikola Tesla.
(b) Thomas Edison.
(c) Anna Mooney.
(d) Isaac Newton.

4. What song about radium became a hit after being featured in the Broadway musical Piff! Paff! Pouf!?
(a) Radium Dance.
(b) Radium City.
(c) Radium Romance.
(d) Radium Racket.

5. 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) Angry.
(b) Heartbroken.
(c) Mystified.
(d) Panicked.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what period of time did Swen Kjaer's national study of the radium dial-painting industry last?

2. Marketed to wealthy clients, a radium lined-jar that could be filled with water to make the water radioactive was recommended in what dose per day?

3. Why was radium such a scarce resource?

4. How much money did the United States Radium Corporation eventually agree to give Mae Canfield in 1930?

5. What was Catherine Wolfe Donohue told when she asked the Radium Dial Company for the results of the medical tests they had recently performed on her?

(see the answer key)

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