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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. Due to radium poisoning, Edna Hussman's legs eventually took on what condition?
(a) Her legs would not bend at the knee.
(b) Her legs were perpetually fractured.
(c) Her legs had no feeling in them.
(d) Her legs were irrevocably crossed.

2. Who was the appointed physician for the five girls who won settlements from the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) Raymond Berry.
(b) Edward Krumbhaar.
(c) Lloyd Craver.
(d) James Ewing.

3. In what discipline did Dr. Frederick Flinn hold a Doctorate degree?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Literature.
(c) Geology.
(d) Philosophy.

4. 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) Quilting bees.
(b) Therapy sessions.
(c) Riots.
(d) Bedlam.

5. 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) Katherine Schaub.
(b) Catherine Wolfe Donohue.
(c) Grace Fryer.
(d) Marguerite Carlough.

Short Answer Questions

1. Katherine Wiley launched a campaign to amend what type of law that affected the dial-painters?

2. 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?

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

4. Most of the dial-painters who received settlements from the United States Radium Corporation did what during the following summer?

5. How many surgeries did Grace Fryer ultimately have performed on her jaw?

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 Sabin Von Sochocky's warning to Grace Fryer in the dial-painting studio?

3. Why did Edna Hussman not realize how badly she had been injured after her fall on the street?

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

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

6. 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?

7. 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?

8. 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?

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

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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