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Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) The New York Times.
(b) The World.
(c) The Chicago Sun Times.
(d) The Newark Tribune.

2. In what discipline did Dr. Frederick Flinn hold a Doctorate degree?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Geology.
(c) Literature.
(d) Medicine.

3. After four years of trying to have a child, Albina Maggia experienced what complication during the birth of the baby she had brought to full term?
(a) The child was stillborn.
(b) It was a breech birth.
(c) The child was born a paraplegic.
(d) She had to receive a Caesarean section.

4. 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 no medical license.
(d) He had never examined even one of the plaintiffs.

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) Fractured ankle.
(b) Sprained knee.
(c) Sprained ankle.
(d) Fractured femur.

6. 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 free of radium poisoning symptoms.
(c) Medical experts familiar with radium poisoning had found the Radium Dial workers to be suffering the early signs of radium poisoning.
(d) Medical experts familiar with radium poisoning had found the Radium Dial workers to be in moderate health.

7. Who bought a typewriter with part of her settlement money in hopes of beginning a career as a writer?
(a) Marguerite Carlough.
(b) Katherine Schaub.
(c) Edna Hussman.
(d) Grace Fryer.

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

9. What material did Rufus Reed use to construct a painting pen that was then given to the dial-painters as a suggested replacement for their brushes?
(a) Copper.
(b) Glass.
(c) Aluminum.
(d) Paper.

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

11. 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) 1930.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1927.

12. 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 results would be published in the newspaper very soon.
(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 information could not be given out.

13. When Catherine Wolfe Donohue was too ill to continue as a dial-painter at Radium Dial, what job was she given instead?
(a) Working in the mail room.
(b) Cleaning out the compound from the dial-painters' dishes.
(c) Working in the darkroom.
(d) Sweeping the floors of the studio.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Whose family filed suit against Radium Dial the day after Radium Dial ran its full-page ad in the Ottawa Daily Times?

3. At what church was the funeral for Quinta McDonald held?

4. What is a sarcoma?

5. For what necessary element of the Cruses' case did they not have funds to pay?

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