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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Swen Kjaer requested information from Radium Dial about Ella Cruse during his national investigation of radium poisoning, what information about Ella was he given?
(a) Her time sheets.
(b) Her blood type.
(c) Her employment dates.
(d) Her production rates.

2. When Cecil K. Drinker found out that the United States Radium Corporation had suppressed his report, he made a deal with Arthur Roeder that he would not publish the report as long as Arthur Roeder immediately took what action?
(a) Sent a full copy of the report to John Roach.
(b) Sent a full copy of the report to the New York Times for publication.
(c) Instituted a set of safety measures to protect the dial-painters.
(d) Paid Cecil K. Drinker $50,000.

3. What was NOT one of the reasons Raymond Berry worried about Judge William Clark being involved in the dial-painters' case?
(a) He knew that the judge was friends with several directors at the United States Radium Corporation.
(b) He learned that the judge was a stockholder in the United States Radium Corporation.
(c) He knew that the judge had some indirect business relations with directors of a parent company of the United States Radium Corporation.
(d) He knew that the judge had a cruel streak.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The list created by Katherine Schaub and Harrison Martland came to be known by what name?

2. How did Raymond Berry eventually get Cecil K. Drinker to testify in court?

3. In what decade of life was Raymond Berry, Grace Fryer's lawyer, when she first contacted him?

4. When Ella Cruse died from radium poisoning, how many weeks before had she been painting dials at Radium Dial?

5. What did October 29, 1929 come to be called?

(see the answer key)

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