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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 46-56.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was NOT part of the group of five dial-painters who received settlements from the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) Edna Hussman.
(b) Katherine Schaub.
(c) Marguerite Carlough.
(d) Grace Fryer.

2. The radium powder at Radium Luminous Materials Corporation was mixed with what substance in order to create the luminous paint used to paint the dials?
(a) Ammonia.
(b) Phosphorous.
(c) Zinc sulfide.
(d) Zinc oxide.

3. The author makes a point of writing that the "silver-banded watch that Tom had given her before their marriage" (332), which she placed on her wrist on the first day of the trial, was not what?
(a) Expensive.
(b) Shiny.
(c) Correct.
(d) Lumnious.

4. By whom was Edna Hussman employed when she was examined by Dr. Frederick Flinn?
(a) Undark.
(b) Radium Dial.
(c) United States Radium Corporation.
(d) Luminite.

5. Tom Donahue and Al Purcell were among those laid off from what Ottawa, Illinois company in 1937?
(a) The Overweis Dairy.
(b) The John Deere Harvester Works.
(c) The Libbey-Owens glass factory.
(d) The Long Grove Confectionary Company.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money did the United States Radium Corporation eventually agree to give Mae Canfield in 1930?

2. Most dial-painters in the United States were the daughters and granddaughters of whom?

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

4. What was NOT one of the reasons Raymond Berry worried about Judge William Clark being involved in the dial-painters' case?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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