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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. When Radium Dial conducted an internal investigation of its workers' health, how many of the dial-painters were told of their results?
(a) One.
(b) Fewer than five.
(c) Zero.
(d) Fewer than ten.

5. 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) Trial dates.
(b) Grocery shopping.
(c) Church.
(d) Her mother's funeral.

Short Answer Questions

1. Katherine Wiley, the woman who conducted an independent investigation into the health of the dial-painters at the United States Radium Corporation, worked for what organization?

2. Though during Swen Kjaer's visit to the Radium Dial studio in Ottowa, he saw water bowls being used by the dial-painters to clean their brushes, how does his observation during the visit differ from photographs he is given at a later date?

3. When Grace Fryer visited Dr. Robert Humphries, what adjective did he use to describe Grace's vertebrae upon examining her x-rays?

4. 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?

5. What types of product were produced by the Waterbury Company in Connecticut?

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