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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was radium first discovered?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1898.
(d) 1882.

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

3. Where did Catherine Wolfe meet her future husband, Tom Wolfe?
(a) At school.
(b) At a picnic.
(c) At church.
(d) At the library.

4. In what discipline did Cecil K. Drinker work at the time he conducted a study at the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) Communicable disease.
(b) Occupational health.
(c) Pharmaceutical safety.
(d) Industrial hygiene.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On what day in 1917 did Congress vote America into joining World War I?

2. 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?

3. When Swen Kjaer requested information from Radium Dial about Ella Cruse during his national investigation of radium poisoning, what information about Ella was he given?

4. 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?

5. At what church was the funeral for Quinta McDonald held?

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