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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 31-45.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 stillborn.
(b) She had to receive a Caesarean section.
(c) It was a breech birth.
(d) The child was born a paraplegic.

2. Whose family first joined the lawsuit Marguerite Carlough had filed against the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) Frances Splettstocher.
(b) Nellie Quinlan.
(c) Hazel Kuzer.
(d) Helen Quinlan.

3. When Catherine Wolfe Donohue was too ill to continue as a dial-painter at Radium Dial, what job was she given instead?
(a) Working in the darkroom.
(b) Working in the mail room.
(c) Cleaning out the compound from the dial-painters' dishes.
(d) Sweeping the floors of the studio.

4. Before dipping their brushes into the radium, what action were the dial-painters at Radium Luminous Materials Corporation instructed to take?
(a) To put the brush behind their ears.
(b) To dip their brushes into the pot of phosphorous.
(c) To put the brush to their lips.
(d) To swirl the brush's end against their clothing.

5. Katherine Wiley launched a campaign to amend what type of law that affected the dial-painters?
(a) The environmental hazards law.
(b) The disability rights law.
(c) The industrial compensation law.
(d) The poison control law.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon what condition did the United States Radium Corporation base its settlement pay-out to Mae Canfield?

2. Until 1922, Cecil K. Drinker's department at Harvard was wholly funded by what source?

3. On what day in 1917 did Congress vote America into joining World War I?

4. When John Roach, the deputy commissioner of the Department of Labor, heard that "the report supplied by the firm was a whitewash" (115), he requested a full copy of the study. What reason did Arthur Roeder give when he refused John Roach's request?

5. 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?

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