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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Prior to joining the Industrial Commission and acting as the judge in the Radium Dial case, what jobs had George B. Marvel held?
(a) Steel worker and lawyer.
(b) Librarian and hot dog vendor.
(c) Lawyer and bank president.
(d) Doctor and fiction writer.

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

3. Though a normal blood count should be 100%, Marguerite Carlough's blood eventually reached what percentage prior to her death?
(a) 30%.
(b) 20%.
(c) 70%.
(d) 60%.

4. 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?
(a) The United States Radium Corporation was going to move overseas.
(b) The United States Radium Corporation was about to be dissolved.
(c) The United States Radium Corporation was near bankruptcy.
(d) If she took a lump sum, she would no longer be required to be examined by company-appointed doctors.

5. While Catherine Wolfe Donohue noted that dial-painters in good health were examined often by Radium Dial-employed physicians, Catherine herself was only examined how many times in 1928?
(a) Twice.
(b) Three times.
(c) Five times.
(d) Once.

Short Answer Questions

1. What arrangements did Rufus Reed make for Peg Looney when she collapsed at work at Radium Dial in August of 1929?

2. Upon what condition did the United States Radium Corporation base its settlement pay-out to Mae Canfield?

3. From what industry was the term "lip-pointing" (56) inherited?

4. 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?

5. Marketed to wealthy clients, a radium lined-jar that could be filled with water to make the water radioactive was recommended in what dose per day?

(see the answer key)

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