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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 46-56.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What amount of money did the first suit filed by a dial-painter request from the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) $30,000.
(b) $75,000.
(c) $90,000.
(d) $50,000.

2. Prior to joining the Industrial Commission and acting as the judge in the Radium Dial case, what jobs had George B. Marvel held?
(a) Steel worker and lawyer.
(b) Doctor and fiction writer.
(c) Librarian and hot dog vendor.
(d) Lawyer and bank president.

3. To what city did Catherine Wolfe Donahue have to travel in order to be examined by the three doctors who would testify about her condition in court?
(a) Chicago.
(b) New York City.
(c) Newark.
(d) Boise.

4. Grace Fryer came from a family of how many children?
(a) 8.
(b) 9.
(c) 10.
(d) 6.

5. The Ottawa Daily Times reported at the time of the New Jersey settlements against the United States Radium Corporation that the first manifestation of radium poisoning was decay of what?
(a) Toenails and fingernails.
(b) Gums and teeth.
(c) Femurs and shinbones.
(d) Vertebrae.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Who once remarked, "There may be a condition into which radium has not yet entered that would produce dire results; everybody handling it should have care," (18) though his advice was ignored by the industry?

4. Who was the first of the United States dial-painters to file suit against her employer?

5. The list created by Katherine Schaub and Harrison Martland came to be known by what name?

(see the answer key)

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