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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Attorneys were reluctant to take Grace Fryer's case due to the United States Radium Corporation's status as all but which of the following?
(a) A wealthy company.
(b) A failing company.
(c) A powerful company.
(d) A well-connected company.

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

3. Catherine Wolfe Donohue described the panic among the Radium Dial workers after news broke of the New Jersey settlements, saying that "There were meetings at the plant that bordered on" (233) what?
(a) Bedlam.
(b) Quilting bees.
(c) Therapy sessions.
(d) Riots.

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

5. In what year was the first suit filed by a dial-painter, in this case against the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1931.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what season and year did Katherine Schaub and Harrison Martland begin creating their list of radium victims?

2. What diagnosis did Dr. Humphries in Orange provide to Quinta McDonald before he bound her in plaster from "her diaphragm to her knees" (95)?

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

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

5. In 1924, New Jersey enacted "a new law that made industrial diseases compensable" (88), but any legal claim had to be filed within what time frame after the point of injury?

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