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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. Once Katherine Schaub started staying at home and refusing to go out, what was the only occasion to get her out of the house?
(a) Her mother's funeral.
(b) Church.
(c) Grocery shopping.
(d) Trial dates.

2. 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 wrote to Cecil K. Drinker and enclosed photographs of Grace Fryer's disfigurement.
(c) He issued a formal summons through the court.
(d) He paid him $1,000.

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

4. After four years of trying to have a child, Albina Maggia experienced what complication during the birth of the baby she had brought to full term?
(a) The child was born a paraplegic.
(b) It was a breech birth.
(c) The child was stillborn.
(d) She had to receive a Caesarean section.

5. When Grace Fryer visited Dr. Robert Humphries, what adjective did he use to describe Grace's vertebrae upon examining her x-rays?
(a) Pulverized.
(b) Normal.
(c) Misaligned.
(d) Crushed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Though a normal blood count should be 100%, Marguerite Carlough's blood eventually reached what percentage prior to her death?

2. Who took over as superintendent of Radium Dial when Miss Murray died of cancer?

3. On what behavior of the dial-painters' did Frederick Flinn blame their "tendency to store radium in their bones" (242)?

4. Who was the appointed physician for the five girls who won settlements from the United States Radium Corporation?

5. When Catherine Wolfe Donohue was too ill to continue as a dial-painter at Radium Dial, what job was she given instead?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. How did the five dial-painters who had settled with the United States Radium Corporation try to help Mae Canfield with her own case?

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

4. What ray of hope emerged when a Russian doctor stepped forward to help with the dial-painters' care and what was the outcome?

5. What prevented the Cruse family from pursuing their case against Radium Dial to hold them accountable in the death of Ella Cruse?

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

7. What types of trouble did dial-painters experience when they tried to have children?

8. What indecent proposal did Dr. Joseph Knef make to the executives at the United States Radium Corporation?

9. 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?

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

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