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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 poisonous.
(b) Less aggressive.
(c) Less debilitating.
(d) Less forgiving.

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) Two weeks before.
(c) One week before.
(d) Eight weeks before.

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

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

5. What types of product were produced by the Waterbury Company in Connecticut?
(a) Clocks.
(b) Pocket watches.
(c) Batteries.
(d) Paints.

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 radium poisoning symptoms.
(b) Medical experts familiar with radium poisoning had found the Radium Dial workers to be free of all disease, injury, and malady of any kind.
(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 suffering the early signs of radium poisoning.

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

8. 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) Riots.
(b) Bedlam.
(c) Therapy sessions.
(d) Quilting bees.

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

10. Katherine Wiley launched a campaign to amend what type of law that affected the dial-painters?
(a) The industrial compensation law.
(b) The poison control law.
(c) The environmental hazards law.
(d) The disability rights law.

11. Whose family filed suit against Radium Dial the day after Radium Dial ran its full-page ad in the Ottawa Daily Times?
(a) Marguerite Carlough.
(b) Ella Cruse.
(c) Grace Fryer.
(d) Catherine Wolfe Donohue.

12. What is a sarcoma?
(a) A fluid-filled sac.
(b) A bone tumor.
(c) A part of the vertebrae.
(d) A ligament tear.

13. 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?
(a) 18 months.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 2 years.

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

15. 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) Trial dates.
(b) Church.
(c) Grocery shopping.
(d) Her mother's funeral.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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)?

3. At what type of establishment did Grace Fryer work after she left her position as a dial-painter?

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

5. In what discipline did Dr. Frederick Flinn hold a Doctorate degree?

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