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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 role did Josiah Stryker inhabit within the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) Company lawyer.
(b) Founder.
(c) Foreman.
(d) President.

2. What treatments did Grace Fryer receive that eventually became too painful for her to continue?
(a) X-ray treatments.
(b) Chiropractic treatments.
(c) Massage treatments.
(d) Physical therapy treatments.

3. When Grace Fryer visited Dr. Robert Humphries, what adjective did he use to describe Grace's vertebrae upon examining her x-rays?
(a) Normal.
(b) Crushed.
(c) Pulverized.
(d) Misaligned.

4. When Lloyd Craver tried to convince Katherine Schaub to take a lump sum in lieu of her medical bills being paid by the United States Radium Corporation for the rest of her life, what false reason did he cite?
(a) The United States Radium Corporation was going to move overseas.
(b) If she took a lump sum, she would no longer be required to be examined by company-appointed doctors.
(c) The United States Radium Corporation was about to be dissolved.
(d) The United States Radium Corporation was near bankruptcy.

5. In the full-page Ottawa Daily Times ad placed by Radium Dial three days after the New Jersey settlements, on what did they place the blame for the New Jersey dial-painters' afflictions?
(a) They said the women affected by so-called radium poisoning worked for companies that added mesothorium to its paint.
(b) They said the women affected by radium poisoning had not used their glass pens for paint application.
(c) They said the women affected by radium poisoning ate lunch in the same room with the radium paint.
(d) They said the women affected by so-called radium poisoning had actually contracted syphilis.

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

3. Katherine Wiley, the woman who conducted an independent investigation into the health of the dial-painters at the United States Radium Corporation, worked for what organization?

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

5. Due to radium poisoning, Edna Hussman's legs eventually took on what condition?

(see the answer key)

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