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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 role did Josiah Stryker inhabit within the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) Foreman.
(b) Founder.
(c) President.
(d) Company lawyer.

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

3. In February of 1925, the creator of the luminous paint, Sabin von Sochocky, wrote to the investigating statistician Dr. Hoffman in order to tell him that "the disease in question is, without doubt" (109) what type of disease?
(a) Innocuous.
(b) Sexually-transmitted.
(c) Occupational.
(d) Coincidental.

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

5. When Lloyd Craver tried to convince Katherine Schaub to take a lump sum in lieu of her medical bills being paid by the United States Radium Corporation for the rest of her life, what false reason did he cite?
(a) If she took a lump sum, she would no longer be required to be examined by company-appointed doctors.
(b) The United States Radium Corporation was near bankruptcy.
(c) The United States Radium Corporation was about to be dissolved.
(d) The United States Radium Corporation was going to move overseas.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what behavior of the dial-painters' did Frederick Flinn blame their "tendency to store radium in their bones" (242)?

2. On April 2, 1925, Arthur Roeder invited Frederick Hoffman to the Orange plant to use the new signs he had erected that warned workers not to put the radium paint-laden brushes in their mouths. In what field was Frederick Hoffman employed?

3. Who was NOT part of the group of five dial-painters who received settlements from the United States Radium Corporation?

4. Which two executives from Radium Dial attended the national radium conference in December of 1928?

5. After Peg Looney became too ill to walk, Chuck Hackensmith would take her around the neighborhood in what?

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