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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Due to radium poisoning, Edna Hussman's legs eventually took on what condition?
(a) Her legs were perpetually fractured.
(b) Her legs would not bend at the knee.
(c) Her legs were irrevocably crossed.
(d) Her legs had no feeling in them.

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

3. When The United States Radium Corporation settled its first lawsuits filed by dial-painters, how many former workers were paid by the company?
(a) Twenty-four.
(b) Nine.
(c) Three.
(d) Thirteen.

4. How did Raymond Berry eventually get Cecil K. Drinker to testify in court?
(a) He threatened to tarnish the researcher's name in the scientific community.
(b) He paid him $1,000.
(c) He wrote to Cecil K. Drinker and enclosed photographs of Grace Fryer's disfigurement.
(d) He issued a formal summons through the court.

5. What was the final amount of the lump sum paid by the United States Radium Corporation to each litigant?
(a) $5,000.
(b) $15,000.
(c) $10,000.
(d) $3,600.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what industry was the term "lip-pointing" (56) inherited?

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

3. For how long did The United States Radium Corporation fight the first lawsuits filed by dial-painters before they settled with the workers out of court?

4. What adjective did the discoverer of radium use often to describe the element?

5. 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?

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