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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 material did Rufus Reed use to construct a painting pen that was then given to the dial-painters as a suggested replacement for their brushes?
(a) Copper.
(b) Paper.
(c) Glass.
(d) Aluminum.

2. What did October 29, 1929 come to be called?
(a) Black Sunday.
(b) Black Tuesday.
(c) Black Friday.
(d) Black Wednesday.

3. At what church was the funeral for Quinta McDonald held?
(a) St. Cyprian Church.
(b) St. Venantius Church.
(c) St. Augustine Church.
(d) Lady of Fatima Church.

4. To whom did Katherine Schaub write a sincere letter of thanks in the summer of 1928?
(a) Mollie Maggia.
(b) Frederick Flinn.
(c) Arthur Roeder.
(d) Raymond Berry.

5. When The United States Radium Corporation settled its first lawsuits filed by dial-painters, how many former workers were paid by the company?
(a) Thirteen.
(b) Twenty-four.
(c) Three.
(d) Nine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the reaction of James Ewing when the five young women he breath-tested for radium tested positive for radioactivity?

2. By whom was Dr. Frederick Flinn paid when he researched the possible harm being caused by various companies' use of radium?

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

4. In what city was St. Columba Church located?

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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