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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. Who said, "It is not for myself I care. I am thinking more of the hundreds of girls to whom this [settlement] may serve as an example" (232)?
(a) Grace Fryer.
(b) Marguerite Carlough.
(c) Katherine Schaub.
(d) Catherine Wolfe Donohue.

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) She had to receive a Caesarean section.
(d) The child was stillborn.

3. On what behavior of the dial-painters' did Frederick Flinn blame their "tendency to store radium in their bones" (242)?
(a) Their poor eating habits.
(b) Their carelessness with the luminous paint.
(c) Their poor hygiene habits.
(d) Their poor eyesight.

4. How many surgeries did Grace Fryer ultimately have performed on her jaw?
(a) 6.
(b) 25.
(c) 15.
(d) 11.

5. 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%.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a sarcoma?

2. 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?

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

4. Who bought a typewriter with part of her settlement money in hopes of beginning a career as a writer?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

7. What were Quinta McDonald's two requests that were made before her death and what were the results of her requests?

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

9. What results were yielded by the national radium conference held in December of 1928?

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

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