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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Having hit multiple dead ends in her fight against the United States Radium Corporation, Grace Fryer contacted the lawyer Raymond Berry in May of what year?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1927.

2. How did Raymond Berry eventually get Cecil K. Drinker to testify in court?
(a) He threatened to tarnish the researcher's name in the scientific community.
(b) He issued a formal summons through the court.
(c) He paid him $1,000.
(d) He wrote to Cecil K. Drinker and enclosed photographs of Grace Fryer's disfigurement.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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?

3. 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?

4. Whose family filed suit against Radium Dial the day after Radium Dial ran its full-page ad in the Ottawa Daily Times?

5. Who took over as superintendent of Radium Dial when Miss Murray died of cancer?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were Quinta McDonald's two requests that were made before her death and what were the results of her requests?

2. How did Raymond Berry find out that Dr. Frederick Flinn held no medical license of any kind?

3. What was the significance of many of the dial-painters buying cars with their settlement monies?

4. How did the five dial-painters who had settled with the United States Radium Corporation try to help Mae Canfield with her own case?

5. Once the United States Radium Corporation had paid each of the five litigants $10,000 and had promised to pay all of their future medical bills, what conditions did the company insist upon?

6. When Radium Dial issued a summary of Peg Looney's autopsy report to the local paper, what information that they furnished was then added to Peg Looney's obituary?

7. When Katherine Schaub slipped and fell on the steps up to her house in Newark, what was the doctor's diagnosis?

8. What was the significance of Sabin Von Sochocky's warning to Grace Fryer in the dial-painting studio?

9. What was particularly difficult about Peg Looney's stay in the company doctor's hospital prior to her death from radium poisoning?

10. What results were yielded by the national radium conference held in December of 1928?

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