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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Dr. Harrison Martland believed that radium was notoriously less what than mesothorium?
(a) Less aggressive.
(b) Less debilitating.
(c) Less forgiving.
(d) Less poisonous.

2. When The United States Radium Corporation settled its first lawsuits filed by dial-painters, how many former workers were paid by the company?
(a) Thirteen.
(b) Nine.
(c) Twenty-four.
(d) Three.

3. How much money did the United States Radium Corporation eventually agree to give Mae Canfield in 1930?
(a) $12,000.
(b) $5,000.
(c) $8,000.
(d) $3,000.

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

5. 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) 1927.
(b) 1921.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1930.

6. On what behavior of the dial-painters' did Frederick Flinn blame their "tendency to store radium in their bones" (242)?
(a) Their poor eating habits.
(b) Their poor hygiene habits.
(c) Their carelessness with the luminous paint.
(d) Their poor eyesight.

7. Of everyone described within the narrative of the book, whose breath contained the most radiation upon being tested?
(a) Grace Fryer.
(b) Sabin Von Sochocky.
(c) Katherine Schaub.
(d) Arthur Roeder.

8. When Ella Cruse died from radium poisoning, how many weeks before had she been painting dials at Radium Dial?
(a) Eight weeks before.
(b) Two weeks before.
(c) Six weeks before.
(d) One week before.

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

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

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

12. When the Westclox company hit a new production high of 1.5 million luminous watches in 1926, what percentage of the watches were painted by Radium Dial?
(a) 30%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 100%.
(d) 80%.

13. What was the main claim of the full-page ad in the Ottawa Daily Times placed by Radium Dial three days after the New Jersey settlements?
(a) Medical experts familiar with radium poisoning had found the Radium Dial workers to be free of all disease, injury, and malady of any kind.
(b) Medical experts familiar with radium poisoning had found the Radium Dial workers to be suffering the early signs of radium poisoning.
(c) Medical experts familiar with radium poisoning had found the Radium Dial workers to be in moderate health.
(d) Medical experts familiar with radium poisoning had found the Radium Dial workers to be free of radium poisoning symptoms.

14. In what year did Catherine Wolfe and Tom Donohue marry?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1939.

15. What crucial piece of information did Raymond Berry uncover about Dr. Frederick Flinn, who was working as an expert witness for several radium companies?
(a) He had never examined even one of the plaintiffs.
(b) He had no medical license.
(c) He was cheating on his wife.
(d) He had no chemistry experience.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what decade of life was Raymond Berry, Grace Fryer's lawyer, when she first contacted him?

2. Which two executives from Radium Dial attended the national radium conference in December of 1928?

3. What was Catherine Wolfe Donohue told when she asked the Radium Dial Company for the results of the medical tests they had recently performed on her?

4. To whom did Katherine Schaub write a sincere letter of thanks in the summer of 1928?

5. 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?

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