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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. To whom did Katherine Schaub write a sincere letter of thanks in the summer of 1928?
(a) Arthur Roeder.
(b) Frederick Flinn.
(c) Mollie Maggia.
(d) Raymond Berry.

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

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. What period of time passed between the time Grace Fryer read about the United States Radium Corporation's first paid settlements and the filing of her own lawsuit against the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) One year.
(b) One month.
(c) Five years.
(d) Two days.

5. 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?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 3 years.
(d) 18 months.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What newspaper was "arguably the most powerful newspaper in America at the time" (195) and helped to spread the word about the dial-painters' plight?

3. What types of product were produced by the Waterbury Company in Connecticut?

4. When Lloyd Craver tried to convince Katherine Schaub to take a lump sum in lieu of her medical bills being paid by the United States Radium Corporation for the rest of her life, what false reason did he cite?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What types of trouble did dial-painters experience when they tried to have children?

7. What prevented the Cruse family from pursuing their case against Radium Dial to hold them accountable in the death of Ella Cruse?

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

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

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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