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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Cecil K. Drinker's investigative report into radium poisoning stated that radium has a similar chemical nature to what element?
(a) Radon.
(b) Calcium.
(c) Phosphorous.
(d) Lead.

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

3. What was the main claim of the full-page ad in the Ottawa Daily Times placed by Radium Dial three days after the New Jersey settlements?
(a) Medical experts familiar with radium poisoning had found the Radium Dial workers to be free of all disease, injury, and malady of any kind.
(b) Medical experts familiar with radium poisoning had found the Radium Dial workers to be suffering the early signs of radium poisoning.
(c) Medical experts familiar with radium poisoning had found the Radium Dial workers to be free of radium poisoning symptoms.
(d) Medical experts familiar with radium poisoning had found the Radium Dial workers to be in moderate health.

4. Katherine Wiley launched a campaign to amend what type of law that affected the dial-painters?
(a) The environmental hazards law.
(b) The disability rights law.
(c) The poison control law.
(d) The industrial compensation law.

5. What color was the mark the scientist found on his skin in 1901 after keeping a piece of radium in his pocket, as described in the book's prologue?
(a) Black.
(b) Brown.
(c) Red.
(d) Green.

Short Answer Questions

1. Having hit multiple dead ends in her fight against the United States Radium Corporation, Grace Fryer contacted the lawyer Raymond Berry in May of what year?

2. What arrangements did Rufus Reed make for Peg Looney when she collapsed at work at Radium Dial in August of 1929?

3. Why was radium such a scarce resource?

4. What song about radium became a hit after being featured in the Broadway musical Piff! Paff! Pouf!?

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

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