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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1926, a law was passed that formally termed radium necrosis as what type of disease?
(a) Deadly.
(b) Communicable.
(c) Compensable.
(d) Industrial.

2. What was the name of Katherine Schaub's trainer in her first apprenticeship position at Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?
(a) Grace Fryer.
(b) Catherine Wolfe.
(c) Marguerite Glacinski.
(d) Mae Cubberley.

3. At what type of establishment did Grace Fryer work after she left her position as a dial-painter?
(a) A school.
(b) A pharmacy.
(c) A library.
(d) A bank.

4. 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?
(a) One year.
(b) One month.
(c) Two days.
(d) Five years.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In January of 1924, what ultimatum did Dr. Barry give the girls he treated who worked at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?

2. By whom was Edna Hussman employed when she was examined by Dr. Frederick Flinn?

3. When The United States Radium Corporation settled its first lawsuits filed by dial-painters, how many former workers were paid by the company?

4. On what behavior of the dial-painters' did Frederick Flinn blame their "tendency to store radium in their bones" (242)?

5. What did October 29, 1929 come to be called?

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