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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who took over as superintendent of Radium Dial when Miss Murray died of cancer?
(a) Joseph Knef.
(b) Katherine Wiley.
(c) Arthur Roeder.
(d) Rufus Reed.

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

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

4. What did October 29, 1929 come to be called?
(a) Black Friday.
(b) Black Sunday.
(c) Black Tuesday.
(d) Black Wednesday.

5. 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) 100%.
(b) 30%.
(c) 50%.
(d) 80%.

6. 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 was cheating on his wife.
(b) He had no chemistry experience.
(c) He had never examined even one of the plaintiffs.
(d) He had no medical license.

7. What period of time passed between the time Grace Fryer read about the United States Radium Corporation's first paid settlements and the filing of her own lawsuit against the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) One year.
(b) Two days.
(c) Five years.
(d) One month.

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

9. Due to radium poisoning, Edna Hussman's legs eventually took on what condition?
(a) Her legs would not bend at the knee.
(b) Her legs were irrevocably crossed.
(c) Her legs were perpetually fractured.
(d) Her legs had no feeling in them.

10. 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) Thirteen.
(c) Twenty-four.
(d) Three.

11. In what city was St. Columba Church located?
(a) Orange.
(b) Ottawa.
(c) Hoboken.
(d) Newark.

12. Why did George Weeks, the Cruse family's lawyer, request several postponements in Ella Cruse's case?
(a) The Cruse family was running out of money.
(b) He knew nothing about radium poisoning.
(c) Ella suffered from nervous tension and needed time to prepare for trial.
(d) Ella was too ill to testify.

13. In January of 1927, Grace Fryer was fitted with a solid steel back brace that she was forbidden to abandon for longer than what period at a time?
(a) Two minutes.
(b) Two days.
(c) Two hours.
(d) Two weeks.

14. What arrangements did Rufus Reed make for Peg Looney when she collapsed at work at Radium Dial in August of 1929?
(a) He arranged for a company doctor to pronounce her as being in perfect health.
(b) He arranged for her to receive a severance package.
(c) He arranged for her to be admitted to the company doctor's hospital.
(d) He arranged a leave of absence for her recuperation.

15. To whom did Katherine Schaub write a sincere letter of thanks in the summer of 1928?
(a) Arthur Roeder.
(b) Mollie Maggia.
(c) Raymond Berry.
(d) Frederick Flinn.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. In 1926, a law was passed that formally termed radium necrosis as what type of disease?

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

5. When Edna Hussman stumbled on the street and her husband helped her to walk to the hospital, what was the doctor's diagnosis?

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