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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the reaction of James Ewing when the five young women he breath-tested for radium tested positive for radioactivity?
(a) He wondered if there were fraud involved and suggested they conduct another examination at a hotel.
(b) He reported the positive results to the Department of Health.
(c) He thought the test instruments were faulty.
(d) He stepped down as an involved physician.

3. Why did Cecil K. Drinker refrain from publishing the report of his findings after his investigation of the United States Radium Company?
(a) The newspaper who bought the rights to Cecil K. Drinker's report went bankrupt before they could publish the report.
(b) Cecil K. Drinker was paid by the United States Radium Corporation to suppress the report's findings.
(c) Cecil K. Drinker was by then a pariah in the scientific community and could not find a publisher.
(d) Cecil K. Drinker believed Arthur Roeder should first give consent for publication of the report.

4. 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 file suit against the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation, 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 if they did not quit their jobs, he would refuse to treat them.
(d) He said that if they did not pay him in full, he would refuse to treat them.

5. In January of 1927, Grace Fryer was fitted with a solid steel back brace that she was forbidden to abandon for longer than what period at a time?
(a) Two minutes.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) Two days.
(d) Two hours.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many witnesses did Arthur Magid, the lawyer hired by Radium Dial, call to the stand during the trial?

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

3. In 1924, New Jersey enacted "a new law that made industrial diseases compensable" (88), but any legal claim had to be filed within what time frame after the point of injury?

4. 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?

5. Marguerite Carlough died in the early morning hours of what holiday in 1925?

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