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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose family first joined the lawsuit Marguerite Carlough had filed against the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) Helen Quinlan.
(b) Hazel Kuzer.
(c) Frances Splettstocher.
(d) Nellie Quinlan.

2. What song about radium became a hit after being featured in the Broadway musical Piff! Paff! Pouf!?
(a) Radium Dance.
(b) Radium Romance.
(c) Radium Racket.
(d) Radium City.

3. Who was the first of the United States dial-painters to file suit against her employer?
(a) Peg Looney.
(b) Marguerite Carlough.
(c) Grace Fryer.
(d) Katherine Schaub.

4. What treatments did Grace Fryer receive that eventually became too painful for her to continue?
(a) Massage treatments.
(b) Chiropractic treatments.
(c) Physical therapy treatments.
(d) X-ray treatments.

5. What did Sabin von Schocky do when he found that radium had gotten into his left index finger?
(a) He poured milk on it to counteract the radium's effects.
(b) He set his finger on fire.
(c) He kept ice on his finger for 24 hours.
(d) He cut the tip of his finger off.

6. How old was Katherine Schaub when she first started working at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?
(a) 18.
(b) 16.
(c) 14.
(d) 11.

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

8. Grace Fryer was motivated to take a position at Radium Luminous Materials Corporation by what reason?
(a) She wanted to have the prestige of working with the wonder substance of radium.
(b) She wanted to work alongside all of her best friends.
(c) She wanted to help with the war effort.
(d) She wanted to be able to buy nice clothes with her earnings.

9. Katherine Wiley of the Consumer League campaigned to have what disease added to the list of legally compensable occupational diseases?
(a) Phossy jaw.
(b) Radium necrosis.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Syphilis.

10. By whom was Edna Hussman employed when she was examined by Dr. Frederick Flinn?
(a) Radium Dial.
(b) Luminite.
(c) United States Radium Corporation.
(d) Undark.

11. Though during Swen Kjaer's visit to the Radium Dial studio in Ottowa, he saw water bowls being used by the dial-painters to clean their brushes, how does his observation during the visit differ from photographs he is given at a later date?
(a) In the photographs, the bowls contain only radium dust.
(b) In the photographs, there are no bowls at all.
(c) In the photographs, the bowls are empty.
(d) In the photographs, the bowls are turned over.

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

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

14. What diagnosis did Dr. Humphries in Orange provide to Quinta McDonald before he bound her in plaster from "her diaphragm to her knees" (95)?
(a) An arthritic hip.
(b) Scoliosis.
(c) Thoracic outlet syndrome.
(d) Radium poisoning.

15. Cecil K. Drinker's investigative report into radium poisoning stated that radium has a similar chemical nature to what element?
(a) Phosphorous.
(b) Calcium.
(c) Lead.
(d) Radon.

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

3. When Swen Kjaer from the Bureau of Labor Statistics conducted an investigation of Radium Dial's scientific laboratories in 1925, what two safeguards did he find the scientists using in their work with radium?

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

5. 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?

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