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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) She had to receive a Caesarean section.
(c) The child was born a paraplegic.
(d) It was a breech birth.

2. 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.

3. 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) Aluminum.
(c) Paper.
(d) Glass.

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

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

6. While Catherine Wolfe Donohue noted that dial-painters in good health were examined often by Radium Dial-employed physicians, Catherine herself was only examined how many times in 1928?
(a) Three times.
(b) Twice.
(c) Five times.
(d) Once.

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

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

9. At what church was the funeral for Quinta McDonald held?
(a) St. Augustine Church.
(b) St. Cyprian Church.
(c) Lady of Fatima Church.
(d) St. Venantius Church.

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

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

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

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 hours.
(b) Two minutes.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) Two days.

14. 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 sent Dr. Hoffman $100 to give to Grace Fryer.
(b) Dr. Hoffman was told that Arthur Roeder no longer worked for the United States Radium Corporation.
(c) Arthur Roeder told Dr. Hoffman that he did not know anyone named Grace Fryer.
(d) Arthur Roeder requested a restraining order against Dr. Hoffman.

15. In what year did Catherine Wolfe and Tom Donohue marry?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1932.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the appointed physician for the five girls who won settlements from the United States Radium Corporation?

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

3. 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?

4. Attorneys were reluctant to take Grace Fryer's case due to the United States Radium Corporation's status as all but which of the following?

5. Most of the dial-painters who received settlements from the United States Radium Corporation did what during the following summer?

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