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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 Peg Looney became too ill to walk, Chuck Hackensmith would take her around the neighborhood in what?
(a) A pair of rollerskates.
(b) A red metal wagon.
(c) A motorcycle sidecar.
(d) A tandem bicycle.

2. Most of the dial-painters who received settlements from the United States Radium Corporation did what during the following summer?
(a) Checked into the hospital.
(b) Died.
(c) Went on trips.
(d) Became paraplegics.

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

4. Upon what condition did the United States Radium Corporation base its settlement pay-out to Mae Canfield?
(a) That Raymond Berry agree not to represent anyone else against the United States Radium Corporation.
(b) That Mae Canfield keep regular appointments with the company doctors.
(c) That Mae Canfield pay for her own future medical costs.
(d) That the results of the settlement would be kept out of the newspapers.

5. Arthur Roeder held what position at the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) Treasurer.
(b) Company attorney.
(c) President.
(d) Foreman.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In 1924, New Jersey enacted "a new law that made industrial diseases compensable" (88), but any legal claim had to be filed within what time frame after the point of injury?

3. When George L. Warren, the county physician for Essex County, died on a trolley ride, who replaced him and eventually became a champion for the dial-painters' cause?

4. By whom was Dr. Frederick Flinn paid when he researched the possible harm being caused by various companies' use of radium?

5. Who appealed to The United States Radium Corporation to monetarily help his patient, Hazel Cuzer, with her medical bills, and was turned down by the company?

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