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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How long were the painting pens in use at Radium Dial before they were abandoned?
(a) Three years.
(b) One month.
(c) Three months.
(d) One week.

3. Where did Catherine Wolfe meet her future husband, Tom Wolfe?
(a) At a picnic.
(b) At church.
(c) At school.
(d) At the library.

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) James Ewing.
(d) Raymond Berry.

5. Though a normal blood count should be 100%, Marguerite Carlough's blood eventually reached what percentage prior to her death?
(a) 70%.
(b) 60%.
(c) 30%.
(d) 20%.

6. In what season and year did Katherine Schaub and Harrison Martland begin creating their list of radium victims?
(a) Summer of 1925.
(b) Fall of 1921.
(c) Winter of 1932.
(d) Spring of 1928.

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

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

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

10. 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?
(a) The information could not be given out.
(b) She could see the results, but could not have a copy of her own.
(c) The results would be published in the newspaper very soon.
(d) She needed to see her own personal physician.

11. 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) Riots.
(d) Quilting bees.

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

13. How did Raymond Berry eventually get Cecil K. Drinker to testify in court?
(a) He issued a formal summons through the court.
(b) He threatened to tarnish the researcher's name in the scientific community.
(c) He paid him $1,000.
(d) He wrote to Cecil K. Drinker and enclosed photographs of Grace Fryer's disfigurement.

14. 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 carelessness with the luminous paint.
(c) Their poor eyesight.
(d) Their poor hygiene habits.

15. When Swen Kjaer requested information from Radium Dial about Ella Cruse during his national investigation of radium poisoning, what information about Ella was he given?
(a) Her production rates.
(b) Her employment dates.
(c) Her blood type.
(d) Her time sheets.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was NOT part of the group of five dial-painters who received settlements from the United States Radium Corporation?

2. What arrangements did Rufus Reed make for Peg Looney when she collapsed at work at Radium Dial in August of 1929?

3. 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?

4. Dr. Harrison Martland believed that radium was notoriously less what than mesothorium?

5. Who was tasked with conducting a nationwide study into the effects of radium poisoning?

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