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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Once Katherine Schaub started staying at home and refusing to go out, what was the only occasion to get her out of the house?
(a) Grocery shopping.
(b) Trial dates.
(c) Church.
(d) Her mother's funeral.

2. Due to radium poisoning, Edna Hussman's legs eventually took on what condition?
(a) Her legs were irrevocably crossed.
(b) Her legs had no feeling in them.
(c) Her legs were perpetually fractured.
(d) Her legs would not bend at the knee.

3. For what period of time did Swen Kjaer's national study of the radium dial-painting industry last?
(a) Three weeks.
(b) One year.
(c) Three years.
(d) Three months.

4. What did October 29, 1929 come to be called?
(a) Black Wednesday.
(b) Black Friday.
(c) Black Tuesday.
(d) Black Sunday.

5. While Catherine Wolfe Donohue noted that dial-painters in good health were examined often by Radium Dial-employed physicians, Catherine herself was only examined how many times in 1928?
(a) Once.
(b) Three times.
(c) Five times.
(d) Twice.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Edna Hussman was examined by Dr. Frederick Flinn, what conclusion did he reach that he then shared with Edna Hussman?

2. In what year was the first suit filed by a dial-painter, in this case against the United States Radium Corporation?

3. In 1926, a law was passed that formally termed radium necrosis as what type of disease?

4. 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?

5. In what year did Catherine Wolfe and Tom Donohue marry?

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