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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. How did Raymond Berry eventually get Cecil K. Drinker to testify in court?
(a) He paid him $1,000.
(b) He wrote to Cecil K. Drinker and enclosed photographs of Grace Fryer's disfigurement.
(c) He issued a formal summons through the court.
(d) He threatened to tarnish the researcher's name in the scientific community.

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

3. Of everyone described within the narrative of the book, whose breath contained the most radiation upon being tested?
(a) Arthur Roeder.
(b) Sabin Von Sochocky.
(c) Grace Fryer.
(d) Katherine Schaub.

4. Once Katherine Schaub started staying at home and refusing to go out, what was the only occasion to get her out of the house?
(a) Trial dates.
(b) Grocery shopping.
(c) Church.
(d) Her mother's funeral.

5. Most of the dial-painters who received settlements from the United States Radium Corporation did what during the following summer?
(a) Went on trips.
(b) Became paraplegics.
(c) Died.
(d) Checked into the hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What was the amount of the lowest settlement offered by the Waterbury Company to one of its former workers' families?

3. After Peg Looney became too ill to walk, Chuck Hackensmith would take her around the neighborhood in what?

4. In the full-page Ottawa Daily Times ad placed by Radium Dial three days after the New Jersey settlements, on what did they place the blame for the New Jersey dial-painters' afflictions?

5. In what city was St. Columba Church located?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

10. 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?

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