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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. Though a normal blood count should be 100%, Marguerite Carlough's blood eventually reached what percentage prior to her death?
(a) 30%.
(b) 20%.
(c) 60%.
(d) 70%.

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

3. 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?
(a) Bedlam.
(b) Riots.
(c) Therapy sessions.
(d) Quilting bees.

4. When Catherine Wolfe Donohue was too ill to continue as a dial-painter at Radium Dial, what job was she given instead?
(a) Working in the mail room.
(b) Cleaning out the compound from the dial-painters' dishes.
(c) Sweeping the floors of the studio.
(d) Working in the darkroom.

5. 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?
(a) The New York Times.
(b) The World.
(c) The Newark Tribune.
(d) The Chicago Sun Times.

Short Answer Questions

1. Once Katherine Schaub started staying at home and refusing to go out, what was the only occasion to get her out of the house?

2. What crucial piece of information did Raymond Berry uncover about Dr. Frederick Flinn, who was working as an expert witness for several radium companies?

3. 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?

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

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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