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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Rufus Reed had Tom Donahue arrested after their altercation in the street, what was NOT one of the charges he brought against Tom Donahue?
(a) Battery.
(b) Theft.
(c) Disorderly conduct.
(d) Assault.

2. In the full-page Ottawa Daily Times ad placed by Radium Dial three days after the New Jersey settlements, on what did they place the blame for the New Jersey dial-painters' afflictions?
(a) They said the women affected by so-called radium poisoning had actually contracted syphilis.
(b) They said the women affected by radium poisoning had not used their glass pens for paint application.
(c) They said the women affected by radium poisoning ate lunch in the same room with the radium paint.
(d) They said the women affected by so-called radium poisoning worked for companies that added mesothorium to its paint.

3. In 1930, the Illinois Industrial Commission notified Radium Dial that it was out of compliance with the Workmen's Compensation Act due to having no insurance. What did the commission then force Radium Dial to do?
(a) They forced them to close the plant until they found an insurer.
(b) They forced them to place $10,000 in a commission bank account.
(c) They forced them to raise the wages paid to their workers.
(d) They forced them to provide the workers with health insurance.

4. Under state law in the early twentieth century in New Jersey, the Department of Labor had no authority to stop an industrial process even if it was what?
(a) Polluting the surrounding areas.
(b) Profitable.
(c) Costly.
(d) Harmful.

5. By whom was Dr. Frederick Flinn paid when he researched the possible harm being caused by various companies' use of radium?
(a) By the unions.
(b) By the companies being investigated.
(c) By the dial-painting victims.
(d) By the United States Department of Labor.

Short Answer Questions

1. The blood tests Cecil K. Drinker performed on the dial-painters at the United States Radium Corporation elicited his finding that none of the dial-painters had what?

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. In what city was the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation located?

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

5. In what season and year did Katherine Schaub and Harrison Martland begin creating their list of radium victims?

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