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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Marguerite Carlough died in the early morning hours of what holiday in 1925?
(a) Halloween.
(b) Valentine's Day.
(c) Boxing Day.
(d) Labor Day.

2. Whose family filed suit against Radium Dial the day after Radium Dial ran its full-page ad in the Ottawa Daily Times?
(a) Ella Cruse.
(b) Grace Fryer.
(c) Catherine Wolfe Donohue.
(d) Marguerite Carlough.

3. Under state law in the early twentieth century in New Jersey, the Department of Labor had no authority to stop an industrial process even if it was what?
(a) Harmful.
(b) Profitable.
(c) Polluting the surrounding areas.
(d) Costly.

4. Who gave her father $2,000 to pay off his mortgage once she had received her settlement?
(a) Marguerite Carlough.
(b) Katherine Schaub.
(c) Catherine Wolfe Donohue.
(d) Grace Fryer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Swen Kjaer from the Bureau of Labor Statistics conducted an investigation of Radium Dial's operations in 1925, how many dial-painters at the Ottawa studio were questioned?

2. 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?

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

4. 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?

5. What was the amount of the lowest settlement offered by the Waterbury Company to one of its former workers' families?

(see the answer key)

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