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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. What was NOT one of the reasons Raymond Berry worried about Judge William Clark being involved in the dial-painters' case?
(a) He learned that the judge was a stockholder in the United States Radium Corporation.
(b) He knew that the judge was friends with several directors at the United States Radium Corporation.
(c) He knew that the judge had some indirect business relations with directors of a parent company of the United States Radium Corporation.
(d) He knew that the judge had a cruel streak.

2. After four years of trying to have a child, Albina Maggia experienced what complication during the birth of the baby she had brought to full term?
(a) It was a breech birth.
(b) The child was born a paraplegic.
(c) The child was stillborn.
(d) She had to receive a Caesarean section.

3. To what hospital was Ella Cruse admitted when her pimple grew in size and caused her entire face to swell?
(a) Ottawa City Hospital.
(b) General Hospital.
(c) St. Columba Hospital.
(d) Newark Hospital.

4. 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) Died.
(c) Became paraplegics.
(d) Checked into the hospital.

5. Whose family filed suit against Radium Dial the day after Radium Dial ran its full-page ad in the Ottawa Daily Times?
(a) Grace Fryer.
(b) Catherine Wolfe Donohue.
(c) Ella Cruse.
(d) Marguerite Carlough.

Short Answer Questions

1. In January of 1927, Grace Fryer was fitted with a solid steel back brace that she was forbidden to abandon for longer than what period at a time?

2. When The United States Radium Corporation settled its first lawsuits filed by dial-painters, how many former workers were paid by the company?

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

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

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

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