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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which two executives from Radium Dial attended the national radium conference in December of 1928?
(a) Raymond Berry and Leonard Grossman.
(b) Joseph Kelly and Harrison Martland.
(c) Arthur Roeder and Gene Wiley.
(d) Joseph Kelly and Rufus Fordyce.

2. How many surgeries did Grace Fryer ultimately have performed on her jaw?
(a) 25.
(b) 15.
(c) 6.
(d) 11.

3. What was the reaction of James Ewing when the five young women he breath-tested for radium tested positive for radioactivity?
(a) He stepped down as an involved physician.
(b) He wondered if there were fraud involved and suggested they conduct another examination at a hotel.
(c) He thought the test instruments were faulty.
(d) He reported the positive results to the Department of Health.

4. To what hospital was Ella Cruse admitted when her pimple grew in size and caused her entire face to swell?
(a) Ottawa City Hospital.
(b) St. Columba Hospital.
(c) General Hospital.
(d) Newark Hospital.

5. When Edna Hussman stumbled on the street and her husband helped her to walk to the hospital, what was the doctor's diagnosis?
(a) Sprained knee.
(b) Fractured femur.
(c) Sprained ankle.
(d) Fractured ankle.

6. In 1926, a law was passed that formally termed radium necrosis as what type of disease?
(a) Compensable.
(b) Communicable.
(c) Industrial.
(d) Deadly.

7. What was the amount of the lowest settlement offered by the Waterbury Company to one of its former workers' families?
(a) $368.66.
(b) $675.25.
(c) $43.75.
(d) $1,300.50.

8. 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 about to be dissolved.
(b) The United States Radium Corporation was near bankruptcy.
(c) The United States Radium Corporation was going to move overseas.
(d) If she took a lump sum, she would no longer be required to be examined by company-appointed doctors.

9. What was the final amount of the lump sum paid by the United States Radium Corporation to each litigant?
(a) $5,000.
(b) $15,000.
(c) $3,600.
(d) $10,000.

10. Having hit multiple dead ends in her fight against the United States Radium Corporation, Grace Fryer contacted the lawyer Raymond Berry in May of what year?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1921.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1927.

11. 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?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 18 months.

12. The list created by Katherine Schaub and Harrison Martland came to be known by what name?
(a) The List of the Courageous.
(b) The List of the Doomed.
(c) The List of the Brave.
(d) The List of the Vindicated.

13. Catherine Wolfe Donohue described the panic among the Radium Dial workers after news broke of the New Jersey settlements, saying that "There were meetings at the plant that bordered on" (233) what?
(a) Therapy sessions.
(b) Bedlam.
(c) Quilting bees.
(d) Riots.

14. Who was the appointed physician for the five girls who won settlements from the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) James Ewing.
(b) Edward Krumbhaar.
(c) Lloyd Craver.
(d) Raymond Berry.

15. Who was NOT part of the group of five dial-painters who received settlements from the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) Edna Hussman.
(b) Grace Fryer.
(c) Marguerite Carlough.
(d) Katherine Schaub.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. The Ottawa Daily Times reported at the time of the New Jersey settlements against the United States Radium Corporation that the first manifestation of radium poisoning was decay of what?

3. When Ella Cruse died from radium poisoning, how many weeks before had she been painting dials at Radium Dial?

4. What was NOT one of the reasons Raymond Berry worried about Judge William Clark being involved in the dial-painters' case?

5. What was the official cause of death listed as a result of the autopsy on Peg Looney's body?

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