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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 31-45.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When George L. Warren, the county physician for Essex County, died on a trolley ride, who replaced him and eventually became a champion for the dial-painters' cause?
(a) Dr. Elroy Roeder.
(b) Dr. Max Schwimmer.
(c) Dr. Roy Schneider.
(d) Dr. Harrison Martland.

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

3. For what necessary element of the Cruses' case did they not have funds to pay?
(a) A series of bone x-rays.
(b) A radioactivity test of Ella's breath.
(c) An exhumation of Ella's body.
(d) The down payment to the lawyer.

4. While Catherine Wolfe Donohue noted that dial-painters in good health were examined often by Radium Dial-employed physicians, Catherine herself was only examined how many times in 1928?
(a) Five times.
(b) Once.
(c) Twice.
(d) Three times.

5. Who took over as superintendent of Radium Dial when Miss Murray died of cancer?
(a) Joseph Knef.
(b) Arthur Roeder.
(c) Katherine Wiley.
(d) Rufus Reed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was NOT one of the reasons Raymond Berry worried about Judge William Clark being involved in the dial-painters' case?

2. Upon what condition did the United States Radium Corporation base its settlement pay-out to Mae Canfield?

3. Cecil K. Drinker's investigative report into radium poisoning stated that radium has a similar chemical nature to what element?

4. What was the amount of the lowest settlement offered by the Waterbury Company to one of its former workers' families?

5. What was the final amount of the lump sum paid by the United States Radium Corporation to each litigant?

(see the answer key)

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