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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Swen Kjaer from the Bureau of Labor Statistics conducted an investigation of Radium Dial's operations in 1925, how many dial-painters at the Ottawa studio were questioned?
(a) One hundred.
(b) Three.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Twenty.

2. Of what female-centric cause had Leonard Grossman been a supporter?
(a) The Suffragette movement.
(b) Sex education in schools.
(c) The Temperance movement.
(d) Birth control rights.

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

4. After four years of trying to have a child, Albina Maggia experienced what complication during the birth of the baby she had brought to full term?
(a) The child was born a paraplegic.
(b) The child was stillborn.
(c) She had to receive a Caesarean section.
(d) It was a breech birth.

5. 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 some indirect business relations with directors of a parent company of the United States Radium Corporation.
(c) He knew that the judge was friends with several directors at the United States Radium Corporation.
(d) He knew that the judge had a cruel streak.

Short Answer Questions

1. What crucial piece of information did Raymond Berry uncover about Dr. Frederick Flinn, who was working as an expert witness for several radium companies?

2. Why did George Weeks, the Cruse family's lawyer, request several postponements in Ella Cruse's case?

3. Grace Fryer came from a family of how many children?

4. 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?

5. In early-twentith century popular culture, radium was dubbed as liquid what?

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