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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 Ella Cruse died from radium poisoning, how many weeks before had she been painting dials at Radium Dial?
(a) Two weeks before.
(b) Eight weeks before.
(c) Six weeks before.
(d) One week before.

2. While Catherine Wolfe Donohue noted that dial-painters in good health were examined often by Radium Dial-employed physicians, Catherine herself was only examined how many times in 1928?
(a) Three times.
(b) Twice.
(c) Once.
(d) Five times.

3. After Peg Looney became too ill to walk, Chuck Hackensmith would take her around the neighborhood in what?
(a) A pair of rollerskates.
(b) A tandem bicycle.
(c) A motorcycle sidecar.
(d) A red metal wagon.

4. What treatments did Grace Fryer receive that eventually became too painful for her to continue?
(a) X-ray treatments.
(b) Physical therapy treatments.
(c) Chiropractic treatments.
(d) Massage treatments.

5. The Ottawa Daily Times reported at the time of the New Jersey settlements against the United States Radium Corporation that the first manifestation of radium poisoning was decay of what?
(a) Gums and teeth.
(b) Vertebrae.
(c) Toenails and fingernails.
(d) Femurs and shinbones.

Short Answer Questions

1. Katherine Wiley, the woman who conducted an independent investigation into the health of the dial-painters at the United States Radium Corporation, worked for what organization?

2. Katherine Wiley of the Consumer League campaigned to have what disease added to the list of legally compensable occupational diseases?

3. What was Catherine Wolfe Donohue told when she asked the Radium Dial Company for the results of the medical tests they had recently performed on her?

4. Catherine Wolfe Donohue described the panic among the Radium Dial workers after news broke of the New Jersey settlements, saying that "There were meetings at the plant that bordered on" (233) what?

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

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