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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When Cecil K. Drinker found out that the United States Radium Corporation had suppressed his report, he made a deal with Arthur Roeder that he would not publish the report as long as Arthur Roeder immediately took what action?
(a) Sent a full copy of the report to the New York Times for publication.
(b) Instituted a set of safety measures to protect the dial-painters.
(c) Sent a full copy of the report to John Roach.
(d) Paid Cecil K. Drinker $50,000.

4. On what street was Radium Luminous Materials Corporation located?
(a) Third Street.
(b) Fourth Street.
(c) Ninety-first Street.
(d) Tenth Street.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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. In what discipline did Cecil K. Drinker work at the time he conducted a study at the United States Radium Corporation?

4. What treatments did Grace Fryer receive that eventually became too painful for her to continue?

5. In 1923, what company acted as Radium Dial's main client, due to its 60% share of the U.S. alarm market?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the author's tone when ending Chapter 11 with the words, "After all-now it was bad for business" (79)?

2. What is the author's evidence for the claim that radium made an "all-pervasive entry into American life"?

3. Who coined the term "radium jaw"? (95)

4. The Radium Luminous Materials Corporation's radium-laden paint was used to create what type of objects?

5. What came of the national study of the industrial use of radium launched by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in April of 1925?

6. Why did radium poisoning victims often need another operation after they had just undergone one?

7. Who was the first dial-painter to file a lawsuit against a radium company?

8. Cecil K. Drinker's tour of the United States Radium Corporation plant took place on the day following what related event?

9. Who were the primary producers of positive literature about radium?

10. What led to many members of the same family working as dial-painters?

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