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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who took over as superintendent of Radium Dial when Miss Murray died of cancer?
(a) Joseph Knef.
(b) Rufus Reed.
(c) Arthur Roeder.
(d) Katherine Wiley.

2. What role did Josiah Stryker inhabit within the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) Company lawyer.
(b) Founder.
(c) Foreman.
(d) President.

3. 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) She was suffering from partial paralysis.
(c) Her left leg was an inch shorter than her right.
(d) There was a sarcoma embedded in her left leg.

4. Though a normal blood count should be 100%, Marguerite Carlough's blood eventually reached what percentage prior to her death?
(a) 60%.
(b) 30%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 70%.

5. Though during Swen Kjaer's visit to the Radium Dial studio in Ottowa, he saw water bowls being used by the dial-painters to clean their brushes, how does his observation during the visit differ from photographs he is given at a later date?
(a) In the photographs, the bowls are empty.
(b) In the photographs, there are no bowls at all.
(c) In the photographs, the bowls are turned over.
(d) In the photographs, the bowls contain only radium dust.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who appealed to The United States Radium Corporation to monetarily help his patient, Hazel Cuzer, with her medical bills, and was turned down by the company?

3. Sabin von Schocky held what position at Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?

4. Catherine Wolfe Donohue described the panic among the Radium Dial workers after news broke of the New Jersey settlements, saying that "There were meetings at the plant that bordered on" (233) what?

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

(see the answer key)

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