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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the main claim of the full-page ad in the Ottawa Daily Times placed by Radium Dial three days after the New Jersey settlements?
(a) Medical experts familiar with radium poisoning had found the Radium Dial workers to be free of all disease, injury, and malady of any kind.
(b) Medical experts familiar with radium poisoning had found the Radium Dial workers to be suffering the early signs of radium poisoning.
(c) Medical experts familiar with radium poisoning had found the Radium Dial workers to be free of radium poisoning symptoms.
(d) Medical experts familiar with radium poisoning had found the Radium Dial workers to be in moderate health.

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

3. Part of the allure of the jobs available at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation was that the site of business was called a what, rather than a factory?
(a) A warehouse.
(b) A internship site.
(c) A paradise.
(d) A studio.

4. 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?
(a) She needed to see her own personal physician.
(b) The information could not be given out.
(c) The results would be published in the newspaper very soon.
(d) She could see the results, but could not have a copy of her own.

5. In early-twentith century popular culture, radium was dubbed as liquid what?
(a) Sunshine.
(b) Health.
(c) Pep.
(d) Luminosity.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many women participated in the studies of radiation's effect conducted over decades by the Center for Human Radiobiology?

2. What period of time passed between the time Grace Fryer read about the United States Radium Corporation's first paid settlements and the filing of her own lawsuit against the United States Radium Corporation?

3. Tom Donahue and Al Purcell were among those laid off from what Ottawa, Illinois company in 1937?

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

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?

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