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Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) A powerful company.
(b) A failing company.
(c) A wealthy company.
(d) A well-connected company.

2. In the full-page Ottawa Daily Times ad placed by Radium Dial three days after the New Jersey settlements, on what did they place the blame for the New Jersey dial-painters' afflictions?
(a) They said the women affected by radium poisoning had not used their glass pens for paint application.
(b) They said the women affected by radium poisoning ate lunch in the same room with the radium paint.
(c) They said the women affected by so-called radium poisoning had actually contracted syphilis.
(d) They said the women affected by so-called radium poisoning worked for companies that added mesothorium to its paint.

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

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

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

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

7. What was the official cause of death listed as a result of the autopsy on Peg Looney's body?
(a) Syphilis.
(b) Diphtheria.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Radium poisoning.

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

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

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

11. When Lloyd Craver tried to convince Katherine Schaub to take a lump sum in lieu of her medical bills being paid by the United States Radium Corporation for the rest of her life, what false reason did he cite?
(a) The United States Radium Corporation was about to be dissolved.
(b) The United States Radium Corporation was near bankruptcy.
(c) The United States Radium Corporation was going to move overseas.
(d) If she took a lump sum, she would no longer be required to be examined by company-appointed doctors.

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

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

14. Who was NOT part of the group of five dial-painters who received settlements from the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) Marguerite Carlough.
(b) Grace Fryer.
(c) Katherine Schaub.
(d) Edna Hussman.

15. 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) Femurs and shinbones.
(c) Toenails and fingernails.
(d) Vertebrae.

Short Answer 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?

2. Who said, "It is not for myself I care. I am thinking more of the hundreds of girls to whom this [settlement] may serve as an example" (232)?

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

4. 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?

5. 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?

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