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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. 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?
(a) A failing company.
(b) A wealthy company.
(c) A well-connected company.
(d) A powerful company.

2. 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 for a company doctor to pronounce her as being in perfect health.
(c) He arranged for her to be admitted to the company doctor's hospital.
(d) He arranged a leave of absence for her recuperation.

3. When Grace Fryer visited Dr. Robert Humphries, what adjective did he use to describe Grace's vertebrae upon examining her x-rays?
(a) Misaligned.
(b) Crushed.
(c) Normal.
(d) Pulverized.

4. In 1926, a law was passed that formally termed radium necrosis as what type of disease?
(a) Compensable.
(b) Industrial.
(c) Communicable.
(d) Deadly.

5. In what decade of life was Raymond Berry, Grace Fryer's lawyer, when she first contacted him?
(a) Twenties.
(b) Fifties.
(c) Thirties.
(d) Seventies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Though a normal blood count should be 100%, Marguerite Carlough's blood eventually reached what percentage prior to her death?

2. Who was the appointed physician for the five girls who won settlements from the United States Radium Corporation?

3. 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?

4. What was the reaction of James Ewing when the five young women he breath-tested for radium tested positive for radioactivity?

5. Due to radium poisoning, Edna Hussman's legs eventually took on what condition?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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