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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What crucial piece of information did Raymond Berry uncover about Dr. Frederick Flinn, who was working as an expert witness for several radium companies?
(a) He had never examined even one of the plaintiffs.
(b) He had no chemistry experience.
(c) He was cheating on his wife.
(d) He had no medical license.

2. In January of 1927, Grace Fryer was fitted with a solid steel back brace that she was forbidden to abandon for longer than what period at a time?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Two minutes.
(c) Two days.
(d) Two hours.

3. Whose family filed suit against Radium Dial the day after Radium Dial ran its full-page ad in the Ottawa Daily Times?
(a) Grace Fryer.
(b) Ella Cruse.
(c) Catherine Wolfe Donohue.
(d) Marguerite Carlough.

4. 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 knew that the judge had a cruel streak.
(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 learned that the judge was a stockholder in the United States Radium Corporation.

5. What was the official cause of death listed as a result of the autopsy on Peg Looney's body?
(a) Syphilis.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Radium poisoning.
(d) Diphtheria.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Catherine Wolfe and Tom Donohue marry?

2. Cecil K. Drinker's investigative report into radium poisoning stated that radium has a similar chemical nature to what element?

3. What role did Josiah Stryker inhabit within the United States Radium Corporation?

4. Whose family first joined the lawsuit Marguerite Carlough had filed against the United States Radium Corporation?

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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