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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. 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 blood type.
(b) Her employment dates.
(c) Her time sheets.
(d) Her production rates.

2. 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.

3. 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 requested a restraining order against Dr. Hoffman.
(d) Arthur Roeder told Dr. Hoffman that he did not know anyone named Grace Fryer.

4. 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) Toenails and fingernails.
(b) Femurs and shinbones.
(c) Gums and teeth.
(d) Vertebrae.

5. Whose family filed suit against Radium Dial the day after Radium Dial ran its full-page ad in the Ottawa Daily Times?
(a) Grace Fryer.
(b) Catherine Wolfe Donohue.
(c) Marguerite Carlough.
(d) Ella Cruse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the official cause of death listed as a result of the autopsy on Peg Looney's body?

2. 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?

3. Who gave her father $2,000 to pay off his mortgage once she had received her settlement?

4. When Catherine Wolfe Donohue was too ill to continue as a dial-painter at Radium Dial, what job was she given instead?

5. How long were the painting pens in use at Radium Dial before they were abandoned?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What ray of hope emerged when a Russian doctor stepped forward to help with the dial-painters' care and what was the outcome?

3. What reasons does the narrator give for Grace Fryer's confusion when she heard that the United States Radium Corporation had rejected her offer to settle?

4. How did Dr. Frederick Flinn react to Raymond Berry's accusation that he held no medical license or degree?

5. What was the significance of Katherine Schaub's purchase of a typewriter with part of her settlement monies?

6. 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?

7. What were the reasons for attorneys' reluctance to take a dial-painter's case against the United States Radium Corporation?

8. What indecent proposal did Dr. Joseph Knef make to the executives at the United States Radium Corporation?

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

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

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