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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 newspaper was "arguably the most powerful newspaper in America at the time" (195) and helped to spread the word about the dial-painters' plight?
(a) The World.
(b) The Chicago Sun Times.
(c) The New York Times.
(d) The Newark Tribune.

2. Dr. Harrison Martland believed that radium was notoriously less what than mesothorium?
(a) Less debilitating.
(b) Less forgiving.
(c) Less poisonous.
(d) Less aggressive.

3. 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.

4. 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?
(a) Five years.
(b) One year.
(c) Two years.
(d) Five months.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Though a normal blood count should be 100%, Marguerite Carlough's blood eventually reached what percentage prior to her death?

2. When Edna Hussman stumbled on the street and her husband helped her to walk to the hospital, what was the doctor's diagnosis?

3. 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?

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

5. For what necessary element of the Cruses' case did they not have funds to pay?

(see the answer key)

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