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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Until 1922, Cecil K. Drinker's department at Harvard was wholly funded by what source?
(a) Government grants.
(b) Commercial firms.
(c) The Drinker family's wealth.
(d) Taxes.

2. Katherine Wiley of the Consumer League campaigned to have what disease added to the list of legally compensable occupational diseases?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) Syphilis.
(c) Phossy jaw.
(d) Radium necrosis.

3. Whose family first joined the lawsuit Marguerite Carlough had filed against the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) Nellie Quinlan.
(b) Hazel Kuzer.
(c) Frances Splettstocher.
(d) Helen Quinlan.

4. For how long did The United States Radium Corporation fight the first lawsuits filed by dial-painters before they settled with the workers out of court?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 18 months.
(d) 2 years.

5. 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) Marguerite Carlough.
(b) Katherine Schaub.
(c) Grace Fryer.
(d) Catherine Wolfe Donohue.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon what condition did the United States Radium Corporation base its settlement pay-out to Mae Canfield?

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

3. When Edna Hussman stumbled on the street and her husband helped her to walk to the hospital, what was the doctor's diagnosis?

4. What was NOT one of the reasons Raymond Berry worried about Judge William Clark being involved in the dial-painters' case?

5. When Edna Hussman was examined by Dr. Frederick Flinn, what conclusion did he reach that he then shared with Edna Hussman?

(see the answer key)

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