Quiz  /  Radium Girls Quiz

  • 1. 
    Which pair of scientists discovered radium?

  • Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison
  • Marie and Pierre Curie
  • James Watson and Francis Crick
  • Jane Goodall and Mary Leakey

  • 2. 
    Radium became known as a miracle element in the early 20th century because of its use in treatment of what ailment?

  • Polio
  • Cancer
  • Depression
  • Epilepsy

  • 3. 
    What nickname was given to the women who painted radium on watch dials and other commercial products?

  • “ghost girls”
  • “radium girls”
  • “alien girls”
  • “monster girls”

  • 4. 
    Who was one of the first women to develop physical symptoms from working with radium?

  • Mary Leakey
  • Marie Curie
  • Harrison Martland
  • Amelia Maggia

  • 5. 
    Which pathologist developed a test that proved conclusively that radium had poisoned the watch painters by destroying their bodies from the inside?

  • Marie Curie
  • Harrison Martland
  • Pierre Curie
  • Raymond Berry

  • 6. 
    Which attorney represented the women who were being poisoned by radium because of their factory work?

  • Alan Dershowitz
  • Raymond Berry
  • Max Weber
  • Maya Harris

  • 7. 
    Whose lawsuit finally stopped the Radium Luminous Materials Corp. from continuing to hire more women to work in dangerous conditions with radium?

  • Marie Curie
  • Grace Fryer
  • Amelia Maggia
  • Catherine Wolfe Donohue
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