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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. Upon what condition did the United States Radium Corporation base its settlement pay-out to Mae Canfield?
(a) That the results of the settlement would be kept out of the newspapers.
(b) That Mae Canfield pay for her own future medical costs.
(c) That Mae Canfield keep regular appointments with the company doctors.
(d) That Raymond Berry agree not to represent anyone else against the United States Radium Corporation.

2. 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) 1930.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1934.

3. Who bought a typewriter with part of her settlement money in hopes of beginning a career as a writer?
(a) Edna Hussman.
(b) Marguerite Carlough.
(c) Grace Fryer.
(d) Katherine Schaub.

4. 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.

5. On what behavior of the dial-painters' did Frederick Flinn blame their "tendency to store radium in their bones" (242)?
(a) Their carelessness with the luminous paint.
(b) Their poor eating habits.
(c) Their poor hygiene habits.
(d) Their poor eyesight.

Short Answer 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?

2. When Grace Fryer visited Dr. Robert Humphries, what adjective did he use to describe Grace's vertebrae upon examining her x-rays?

3. 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?

4. Katherine Wiley launched a campaign to amend what type of law that affected the dial-painters?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. What was The List of the Doomed and who made it?

10. 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?

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