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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Approximately how much blood did Catherine Wolfe Donahue lose each time she hemorrhaged from her jaw?
(a) One cup.
(b) Two cups.
(c) One pint.
(d) One quart.

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

3. Once Tom Wolfe Donahue moved Catherine Wolfe Donahue's bed, where did he sleep?
(a) In his own bed.
(b) Outside in a hammock.
(c) On a couch at the foot of her bed.
(d) In the bathtub.

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

5. In what city was the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation located?
(a) Orange, California.
(b) Ottawa, Illinois.
(c) New York, New York.
(d) Newark, New Jersey.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of hair was used in the brushes with which the girls painted the dials at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?

2. How long were the painting pens in use at Radium Dial before they were abandoned?

3. Until 1922, Cecil K. Drinker's department at Harvard was wholly funded by what source?

4. Who had an arm amputated in hopes of saving the rest of her body from being given over to the effects of radium?

5. When Lloyd Craver tried to convince Katherine Schaub to take a lump sum in lieu of her medical bills being paid by the United States Radium Corporation for the rest of her life, what false reason did he cite?

(see the answer key)

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