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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Grace Fryer visited Dr. Robert Humphries, what adjective did he use to describe Grace's vertebrae upon examining her x-rays?
(a) Normal.
(b) Misaligned.
(c) Pulverized.
(d) Crushed.

2. Why did George Weeks, the Cruse family's lawyer, request several postponements in Ella Cruse's case?
(a) He knew nothing about radium poisoning.
(b) The Cruse family was running out of money.
(c) Ella suffered from nervous tension and needed time to prepare for trial.
(d) Ella was too ill to testify.

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

4. After Peg Looney became too ill to walk, Chuck Hackensmith would take her around the neighborhood in what?
(a) A pair of rollerskates.
(b) A tandem bicycle.
(c) A motorcycle sidecar.
(d) A red metal wagon.

5. 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) Sabin Von Sochocky.
(d) Arthur Roeder.

6. For what necessary element of the Cruses' case did they not have funds to pay?
(a) A series of bone x-rays.
(b) A radioactivity test of Ella's breath.
(c) The down payment to the lawyer.
(d) An exhumation of Ella's body.

7. 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 her to receive a severance package.
(b) He arranged a leave of absence for her recuperation.
(c) He arranged for a company doctor to pronounce her as being in perfect health.
(d) He arranged for her to be admitted to the company doctor's hospital.

8. 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 blood type.
(c) Her production rates.
(d) Her employment dates.

9. What crucial piece of information did Raymond Berry uncover about Dr. Frederick Flinn, who was working as an expert witness for several radium companies?
(a) He had no medical license.
(b) He had no chemistry experience.
(c) He was cheating on his wife.
(d) He had never examined even one of the plaintiffs.

10. Which two executives from Radium Dial attended the national radium conference in December of 1928?
(a) Arthur Roeder and Gene Wiley.
(b) Raymond Berry and Leonard Grossman.
(c) Joseph Kelly and Harrison Martland.
(d) Joseph Kelly and Rufus Fordyce.

11. Dr. Harrison Martland believed that radium was notoriously less what than mesothorium?
(a) Less debilitating.
(b) Less poisonous.
(c) Less forgiving.
(d) Less aggressive.

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

13. Due to radium poisoning, Edna Hussman's legs eventually took on what condition?
(a) Her legs were perpetually fractured.
(b) Her legs had no feeling in them.
(c) Her legs were irrevocably crossed.
(d) Her legs would not bend at the knee.

14. 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) 100%.
(c) 80%.
(d) 50%.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon what condition did the United States Radium Corporation base its settlement pay-out to Mae Canfield?

2. The list created by Katherine Schaub and Harrison Martland came to be known by what name?

3. Who was NOT part of the group of five dial-painters who received settlements from the United States Radium Corporation?

4. Where did Catherine Wolfe meet her future husband, Tom Wolfe?

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

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