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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What arrangements did Rufus Reed make for Peg Looney when she collapsed at work at Radium Dial in August of 1929?
(a) He arranged for her to receive a severance package.
(b) He arranged for her to be admitted to the company doctor's hospital.
(c) He arranged for a company doctor to pronounce her as being in perfect health.
(d) He arranged a leave of absence for her recuperation.

2. What response did Dr. Hoffman receive when he wrote to Arthur Roeder, asking him to help Grace Fryer "in a spirit of fairness and justice" (175)?
(a) Arthur Roeder told Dr. Hoffman that he did not know anyone named Grace Fryer.
(b) Dr. Hoffman was told that Arthur Roeder no longer worked for the United States Radium Corporation.
(c) Arthur Roeder sent Dr. Hoffman $100 to give to Grace Fryer.
(d) Arthur Roeder requested a restraining order against Dr. Hoffman.

3. 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?
(a) In the photographs, there are no bowls at all.
(b) In the photographs, the bowls are empty.
(c) In the photographs, the bowls are turned over.
(d) In the photographs, the bowls contain only radium dust.

4. By whom was radium discovered?
(a) Marie and Pierre Curie.
(b) Isaac Newton.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Albert Einstein.

5. Part of the allure of the jobs available at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation was that the site of business was called a what, rather than a factory?
(a) A internship site.
(b) A warehouse.
(c) A studio.
(d) A paradise.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the final amount of the lump sum paid by the United States Radium Corporation to each litigant?

2. Who bought a typewriter with part of her settlement money in hopes of beginning a career as a writer?

3. For how long did The United States Radium Corporation fight the first lawsuits filed by dial-painters before they settled with the workers out of court?

4. The list created by Katherine Schaub and Harrison Martland came to be known by what name?

5. Most of the dial-painters who received settlements from the United States Radium Corporation did what during the following summer?

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