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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What amount of money did the first suit filed by a dial-painter request from the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) $30,000.
(b) $75,000.
(c) $50,000.
(d) $90,000.

2. Until 1922, Cecil K. Drinker's department at Harvard was wholly funded by what source?
(a) Taxes.
(b) The Drinker family's wealth.
(c) Government grants.
(d) Commercial firms.

3. What position did Anna Rooney hold at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?
(a) Forewoman.
(b) Inspector.
(c) Insurance claims adjuster.
(d) Accountant.

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

5. The paper dials painted by Radium Luminous Materials Corporation workers had black backgrounds and numerals of what color?
(a) White.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Red.
(d) Green.

6. 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?
(a) Dr. Mayweather Marion.
(b) Dr. Anthony Cruz.
(c) Dr. Ernest Miser.
(d) Dr. Theodore Blum.

7. 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 by then a pariah in the scientific community and could not find a publisher.
(c) Cecil K. Drinker believed Arthur Roeder should first give consent for publication of the report.
(d) Cecil K. Drinker was paid by the United States Radium Corporation to suppress the report's findings.

8. In February of 1925, the creator of the luminous paint, Sabin von Sochocky, wrote to the investigating statistician Dr. Hoffman in order to tell him that "the disease in question is, without doubt" (109) what type of disease?
(a) Coincidental.
(b) Sexually-transmitted.
(c) Occupational.
(d) Innocuous.

9. How old was Hazel Kuzer when she died of radium poisoning?
(a) 30.
(b) 25.
(c) 35.
(d) 40.

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

11. What was the name of Katherine Schaub's trainer in her first apprenticeship position at Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?
(a) Mae Cubberley.
(b) Grace Fryer.
(c) Marguerite Glacinski.
(d) Catherine Wolfe.

12. On what day in 1917 did Congress vote America into joining World War I?
(a) April 6th.
(b) May 18th.
(c) October 30th.
(d) June 6th.

13. For what period of time did Swen Kjaer's national study of the radium dial-painting industry last?
(a) One year.
(b) Three years.
(c) Three months.
(d) Three weeks.

14. Most dial-painters in the United States were the daughters and granddaughters of whom?
(a) Scientists.
(b) Immigrants.
(c) Socialists.
(d) Industrialists.

15. 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?
(a) One year.
(b) Two years.
(c) Five years.
(d) Five months.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first of the United States dial-painters to file suit against her employer?

2. 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?

3. Who looked pointedly at Grace Fryer on one instance within the studio and warned her not to lip-point, a comment that would later take on great significance in court?

4. How old was Katherine Schaub when she first started working at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?

5. What diagnosis did Dr. Humphries in Orange provide to Quinta McDonald before he bound her in plaster from "her diaphragm to her knees" (95)?

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