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

2. Who gave her father $2,000 to pay off his mortgage once she had received her settlement?
(a) Grace Fryer.
(b) Katherine Schaub.
(c) Catherine Wolfe Donohue.
(d) Marguerite Carlough.

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

4. How much money did the United States Radium Corporation eventually agree to give Mae Canfield in 1930?
(a) $5,000.
(b) $3,000.
(c) $12,000.
(d) $8,000.

5. The list created by Katherine Schaub and Harrison Martland came to be known by what name?
(a) The List of the Doomed.
(b) The List of the Vindicated.
(c) The List of the Courageous.
(d) The List of the Brave.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what season and year did Katherine Schaub and Harrison Martland begin creating their list of radium victims?

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

4. How did Raymond Berry eventually get Cecil K. Drinker to testify in court?

5. What arrangements did Rufus Reed make for Peg Looney when she collapsed at work at Radium Dial in August of 1929?

Short Essay Questions

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

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 was The List of the Doomed and who made it?

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

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. 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?

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

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

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

10. Who resigned from the United States Radium Corporation in July of 1926 and why?

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