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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) Disease control.
(b) Industrial waste.
(c) Statistics.
(d) Chemistry.

3. When Edna Hussman was examined by Dr. Frederick Flinn, what conclusion did he reach that he then shared with Edna Hussman?
(a) Her blood was abnormal.
(b) She had arthritic joints.
(c) She had syphilis.
(d) She was in perfect health.

4. Most of the dial-painters who received settlements from the United States Radium Corporation did what during the following summer?
(a) Died.
(b) Checked into the hospital.
(c) Went on trips.
(d) Became paraplegics.

5. In January of 1924, what ultimatum did Dr. Barry give the girls he treated who worked at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?
(a) He said that if they did not pay him in full, he would refuse to treat them.
(b) He said that if they did not start brushing their teeth regularly, he would refuse to treat them.
(c) He said that if they did not file suit against the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation, he would refuse to treat them.
(d) He said if they did not quit their jobs, he would refuse to treat them.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Cecil K. Drinker found out that the United States Radium Corporation had suppressed his report, he made a deal with Arthur Roeder that he would not publish the report as long as Arthur Roeder immediately took what action?

2. In February of 1925, the creator of the luminous paint, Sabin von Sochocky, wrote to the investigating statistician Dr. Hoffman in order to tell him that "the disease in question is, without doubt" (109) what type of disease?

3. Who was the first of the United States dial-painters to file suit against her employer?

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

5. Why did Cecil K. Drinker refrain from publishing the report of his findings after his investigation of the United States Radium Company?

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