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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 46-56.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Arthur Roeder held what position at the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) Foreman.
(b) Treasurer.
(c) Company attorney.
(d) President.

2. The author points out that in contrast to the radium testing labs, where the scientists took precautions with radium, the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation studio workers took no precautions. What item is NOT on the list the author gives of the items missing from the studio workers' lives?
(a) Ivory-tipped forceps.
(b) Medical experts.
(c) Lead gloves.
(d) Lead aprons.

3. Arthur Magid, the lawyer for Radium Dial, claimed that radioactive substances cannot be poisonous, but that they can be what?
(a) Healing.
(b) Abrasive.
(c) Unstable.
(d) Harmful.

4. How did Katherine Schaub come to work at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?
(a) A friend of hers told her about an open position there.
(b) She walked by the building one day on her way to school.
(c) She read about the job in a newspaper.
(d) She attended the Grand Opening of the building.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Grace Fryer came from a family of how many children?

2. In what year was the first suit filed by a dial-painter, in this case against the United States Radium Corporation?

3. After four years of trying to have a child, Albina Maggia experienced what complication during the birth of the baby she had brought to full term?

4. How many women participated in the studies of radiation's effect conducted over decades by the Center for Human Radiobiology?

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?

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