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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 gave her father $2,000 to pay off his mortgage once she had received her settlement?
(a) Catherine Wolfe Donohue.
(b) Katherine Schaub.
(c) Grace Fryer.
(d) Marguerite Carlough.

2. What was NOT one of the reasons Raymond Berry worried about Judge William Clark being involved in the dial-painters' case?
(a) He learned that the judge was a stockholder in the United States Radium Corporation.
(b) He knew that the judge had a cruel streak.
(c) He knew that the judge was friends with several directors at the United States Radium Corporation.
(d) He knew that the judge had some indirect business relations with directors of a parent company of the United States Radium Corporation.

3. In January of 1924, what ultimatum did Dr. Barry give the girls he treated who worked at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?
(a) He said that if they did not start brushing their teeth regularly, he would refuse to treat them.
(b) He said if they did not quit their jobs, he would refuse to treat them.
(c) He said that if they did not file suit against the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation, he would refuse to treat them.
(d) He said that if they did not pay him in full, he would refuse to treat them.

4. For how long did The United States Radium Corporation fight the first lawsuits filed by dial-painters before they settled with the workers out of court?
(a) 3 years.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 18 months.

5. 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) Coincidental.
(b) Innocuous.
(c) Sexually-transmitted.
(d) Occupational.

Short Answer Questions

1. Marie Rossiter testified on the stand that Rufus Reed had told the dial-painters that radium would do what for them?

2. When Rufus Reed left the Ottawa site of Radium Dial, to what city did he go to continue working for the company?

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

4. The city of Newark, New Jersey was termed the city of what?

5. In what decade of life was Raymond Berry, Grace Fryer's lawyer, when she first contacted him?

(see the answer key)

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