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

2. When Edna Hussman stumbled on the street and her husband helped her to walk to the hospital, what was the doctor's diagnosis?
(a) Sprained knee.
(b) Fractured ankle.
(c) Sprained ankle.
(d) Fractured femur.

3. In what city was St. Columba Church located?
(a) Orange.
(b) Hoboken.
(c) Ottawa.
(d) Newark.

4. In what year did Catherine Wolfe and Tom Donohue marry?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1918.

5. When The United States Radium Corporation settled its first lawsuits filed by dial-painters, how many former workers were paid by the company?
(a) Nine.
(b) Twenty-four.
(c) Three.
(d) Thirteen.

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. For how long did The United States Radium Corporation fight the first lawsuits filed by dial-painters before they settled with the workers out of court?

3. What was the main claim of the full-page ad in the Ottawa Daily Times placed by Radium Dial three days after the New Jersey settlements?

4. 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?

5. Of everyone described within the narrative of the book, whose breath contained the most radiation upon being tested?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the differences between the statute of limitations in federal court, versus the statute of limitations in the courts of New Jersey?

2. What steps did Peg Looney's family take in order to ensure that the autopsy performed on Peg's body would yield honest results and how were their attempts thwarted?

3. 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?

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

5. 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?

6. What were Raymond Berry's qualifications as a lawyer?

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

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

9. 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?

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

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