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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 20-30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who took over as superintendent of Radium Dial when Miss Murray died of cancer?
(a) Arthur Roeder.
(b) Katherine Wiley.
(c) Joseph Knef.
(d) Rufus Reed.

2. What was the amount of the lowest settlement offered by the Waterbury Company to one of its former workers' families?
(a) $1,300.50.
(b) $368.66.
(c) $43.75.
(d) $675.25.

3. The list created by Katherine Schaub and Harrison Martland came to be known by what name?
(a) The List of the Doomed.
(b) The List of the Courageous.
(c) The List of the Brave.
(d) The List of the Vindicated.

4. In what decade of life was Raymond Berry, Grace Fryer's lawyer, when she first contacted him?
(a) Seventies.
(b) Twenties.
(c) Thirties.
(d) Fifties.

5. In what season and year did Katherine Schaub and Harrison Martland begin creating their list of radium victims?
(a) Spring of 1928.
(b) Winter of 1932.
(c) Summer of 1925.
(d) Fall of 1921.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city was St. Columba Church located?

2. 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?

3. When Katherine Schaub first started working at Radium Luminous Materials Corporation, she was placed into an apprenticeship in what position?

4. Though during Swen Kjaer's visit to the Radium Dial studio in Ottowa, he saw water bowls being used by the dial-painters to clean their brushes, how does his observation during the visit differ from photographs he is given at a later date?

5. As the most valuable substance on earth, how much did a single gram of radium cost in 1917?

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