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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Two years.
(b) One year.
(c) Five years.
(d) Five months.

2. What type of hair was used in the brushes with which the girls painted the dials at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?
(a) Rabbit hair.
(b) Horse hair.
(c) Human hair.
(d) Camel hair.

3. To what position was Katherine Schaub promoted after the term of her apprenticeship?
(a) Forewoman.
(b) Tax adjuster.
(c) Inspector.
(d) Dial-painter.

4. Part of the allure of the jobs available at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation was that the site of business was called a what, rather than a factory?
(a) A warehouse.
(b) A internship site.
(c) A paradise.
(d) A studio.

5. In 1923, what company acted as Radium Dial's main client, due to its 60% share of the U.S. alarm market?
(a) Franklin.
(b) General Electric.
(c) Westclox.
(d) Masterclock, Inc.

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

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

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

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

10. 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?
(a) Hemophilia.
(b) Syphilis.
(c) Wholly normal blood.
(d) Radium poisoning.

11. On April 2, 1925, Arthur Roeder invited Frederick Hoffman to the Orange plant to use the new signs he had erected that warned workers not to put the radium paint-laden brushes in their mouths. In what field was Frederick Hoffman employed?
(a) Industrial waste.
(b) Disease control.
(c) Chemistry.
(d) Statistics.

12. 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.

13. When Swen Kjaer from the Bureau of Labor Statistics conducted an investigation of Radium Dial's operations in 1925, how many dial-painters at the Ottawa studio were questioned?
(a) Twenty.
(b) One hundred.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Three.

14. Katherine Wiley, the woman who conducted an independent investigation into the health of the dial-painters at the United States Radium Corporation, worked for what organization?
(a) The Consumers League.
(b) The Justice League.
(c) The League of Women Voters.
(d) The Workers' Rights League.

15. When the girls at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation started to worry that the paint they used may be dangerous, doctors from New York came and assured the girls that the paint was harmless due to what reason?
(a) The amount of radium in the paint was miniscule.
(b) The paint would only be harmful in extremely cold working conditions.
(c) There was no phosphorous in the paint.
(d) Radium takes years to harm the human body.

Short Answer Questions

1. By whom was Dr. Frederick Flinn paid when he researched the possible harm being caused by various companies' use of radium?

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

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

4. In early-twentith century popular culture, radium was dubbed as liquid what?

5. The author points out that in contrast to the radium testing labs, where the scientists took precautions with radium, the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation studio workers took no precautions. What item is NOT on the list the author gives of the items missing from the studio workers' lives?

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