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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 month.
(b) One year.
(c) Five years.
(d) Two days.

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. What response did Dr. Hoffman receive when he wrote to Arthur Roeder, asking him to help Grace Fryer "in a spirit of fairness and justice" (175)?
(a) Arthur Roeder told Dr. Hoffman that he did not know anyone named Grace Fryer.
(b) Arthur Roeder sent Dr. Hoffman $100 to give to Grace Fryer.
(c) Arthur Roeder requested a restraining order against Dr. Hoffman.
(d) Dr. Hoffman was told that Arthur Roeder no longer worked for the United States Radium Corporation.

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

5. Upon what condition did the United States Radium Corporation base its settlement pay-out to Mae Canfield?
(a) That Raymond Berry agree not to represent anyone else against the United States Radium Corporation.
(b) That the results of the settlement would be kept out of the newspapers.
(c) That Mae Canfield keep regular appointments with the company doctors.
(d) That Mae Canfield pay for her own future medical costs.

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

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

8. 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) Twenty-four.
(c) Thirteen.
(d) Nine.

9. 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 Chicago Sun Times.
(c) The Newark Tribune.
(d) The World.

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

11. Most of the dial-painters who received settlements from the United States Radium Corporation did what during the following summer?
(a) Became paraplegics.
(b) Went on trips.
(c) Checked into the hospital.
(d) Died.

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

14. Once Katherine Schaub started staying at home and refusing to go out, what was the only occasion to get her out of the house?
(a) Church.
(b) Grocery shopping.
(c) Trial dates.
(d) Her mother's funeral.

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 time sheets.
(b) Her production rates.
(c) Her employment dates.
(d) Her blood type.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the amount of the lowest settlement offered by the Waterbury Company to one of its former workers' families?

2. 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?

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

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

5. In what year did Catherine Wolfe and Tom Donohue marry?

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