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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay 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. In what discipline did Dr. Frederick Flinn hold a Doctorate degree?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Geology.
(d) Literature.

3. In what year did Catherine Wolfe and Tom Donohue marry?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1918.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the full-page Ottawa Daily Times ad placed by Radium Dial three days after the New Jersey settlements, on what did they place the blame for the New Jersey dial-painters' afflictions?

2. Due to radium poisoning, Edna Hussman's legs eventually took on what condition?

3. 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?

4. To what hospital was Ella Cruse admitted when her pimple grew in size and caused her entire face to swell?

5. Who was NOT part of the group of five dial-painters who received settlements from the United States Radium Corporation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was particularly difficult about Peg Looney's stay in the company doctor's hospital prior to her death from radium poisoning?

2. What were the differences between the statute of limitations in federal court, versus the statute of limitations in the courts of New Jersey?

3. What was The List of the Doomed and who made it?

4. How did Dr. Frederick Flinn react to Raymond Berry's accusation that he held no medical license or degree?

5. Who resigned from the United States Radium Corporation in July of 1926 and why?

6. What was the significance of Katherine Schaub's purchase of a typewriter with part of her settlement monies?

7. What were Raymond Berry's qualifications as a lawyer?

8. What reasons does the narrator give for Grace Fryer's confusion when she heard that the United States Radium Corporation had rejected her offer to settle?

9. When Radium Dial issued a summary of Peg Looney's autopsy report to the local paper, what information that they furnished was then added to Peg Looney's obituary?

10. How did Raymond Berry find out that Dr. Frederick Flinn held no medical license of any kind?

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