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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was the reaction of James Ewing when the five young women he breath-tested for radium tested positive for radioactivity?
(a) He stepped down as an involved physician.
(b) He wondered if there were fraud involved and suggested they conduct another examination at a hotel.
(c) He thought the test instruments were faulty.
(d) He reported the positive results to the Department of Health.

4. Where did Catherine Wolfe meet her future husband, Tom Wolfe?
(a) At church.
(b) At a picnic.
(c) At the library.
(d) At school.

5. 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) Dr. Hoffman was told that Arthur Roeder no longer worked for the United States Radium Corporation.
(b) Arthur Roeder sent Dr. Hoffman $100 to give to Grace Fryer.
(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.

6. 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) 80%.
(b) 100%.
(c) 50%.
(d) 30%.

7. Though a normal blood count should be 100%, Marguerite Carlough's blood eventually reached what percentage prior to her death?
(a) 20%.
(b) 60%.
(c) 30%.
(d) 70%.

8. The Ottawa Daily Times reported at the time of the New Jersey settlements against the United States Radium Corporation that the first manifestation of radium poisoning was decay of what?
(a) Gums and teeth.
(b) Toenails and fingernails.
(c) Femurs and shinbones.
(d) Vertebrae.

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

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

11. Who was tasked with conducting a nationwide study into the effects of radium poisoning?
(a) Harrison Martland.
(b) Leonard Grossman.
(c) Frederick Flinn.
(d) Swen Kjaer.

12. 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.

13. What was the amount of the lowest settlement offered by the Waterbury Company to one of its former workers' families?
(a) $675.25.
(b) $368.66.
(c) $1,300.50.
(d) $43.75.

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

15. 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 a leave of absence for her recuperation.
(c) He arranged for her to receive a severance package.
(d) He arranged for her to be admitted to the company doctor's hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did George Weeks, the Cruse family's lawyer, request several postponements in Ella Cruse's case?

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

3. Who bought a typewriter with part of her settlement money in hopes of beginning a career as a writer?

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

5. On what behavior of the dial-painters' did Frederick Flinn blame their "tendency to store radium in their bones" (242)?

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