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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Ella Cruse died from radium poisoning, how many weeks before had she been painting dials at Radium Dial?
(a) One week before.
(b) Eight weeks before.
(c) Two weeks before.
(d) Six weeks before.

3. Who said, "It is not for myself I care. I am thinking more of the hundreds of girls to whom this [settlement] may serve as an example" (232)?
(a) Grace Fryer.
(b) Katherine Schaub.
(c) Marguerite Carlough.
(d) Catherine Wolfe Donohue.

4. What was the amount of the lowest settlement offered by the Waterbury Company to one of its former workers' families?
(a) $1,300.50.
(b) $368.66.
(c) $675.25.
(d) $43.75.

5. 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) Three times.
(b) Five times.
(c) Twice.
(d) Once.

6. When Edna Hussman stumbled on the street and her husband helped her to walk to the hospital, what was the doctor's diagnosis?
(a) Sprained ankle.
(b) Fractured femur.
(c) Sprained knee.
(d) Fractured ankle.

7. How many surgeries did Grace Fryer ultimately have performed on her jaw?
(a) 25.
(b) 15.
(c) 11.
(d) 6.

8. Of everyone described within the narrative of the book, whose breath contained the most radiation upon being tested?
(a) Arthur Roeder.
(b) Grace Fryer.
(c) Katherine Schaub.
(d) Sabin Von Sochocky.

9. Though a normal blood count should be 100%, Marguerite Carlough's blood eventually reached what percentage prior to her death?
(a) 70%.
(b) 30%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 60%.

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

11. In what city was St. Columba Church located?
(a) Orange.
(b) Newark.
(c) Ottawa.
(d) Hoboken.

12. Katherine Wiley launched a campaign to amend what type of law that affected the dial-painters?
(a) The poison control law.
(b) The industrial compensation law.
(c) The environmental hazards law.
(d) The disability rights law.

13. 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) Gums and teeth.
(b) Femurs and shinbones.
(c) Toenails and fingernails.
(d) Vertebrae.

14. Who was tasked with conducting a nationwide study into the effects of radium poisoning?
(a) Frederick Flinn.
(b) Harrison Martland.
(c) Leonard Grossman.
(d) Swen Kjaer.

15. When the Westclox company hit a new production high of 1.5 million luminous watches in 1926, what percentage of the watches were painted by Radium Dial?
(a) 30%.
(b) 100%.
(c) 80%.
(d) 50%.

Short Answer Questions

1. What material did Rufus Reed use to construct a painting pen that was then given to the dial-painters as a suggested replacement for their brushes?

2. At what type of establishment did Grace Fryer work after she left her position as a dial-painter?

3. In 1926, a law was passed that formally termed radium necrosis as what type of disease?

4. Which two executives from Radium Dial attended the national radium conference in December of 1928?

5. In what discipline did Dr. Frederick Flinn hold a Doctorate degree?

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