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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. In what year did Catherine Wolfe and Tom Donohue marry?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1918.
2. Which two executives from Radium Dial attended the national radium conference in December of 1928?
(a) Joseph Kelly and Rufus Fordyce.
(b) Joseph Kelly and Harrison Martland.
(c) Arthur Roeder and Gene Wiley.
(d) Raymond Berry and Leonard Grossman.
3. What was the amount of the lowest settlement offered by the Waterbury Company to one of its former workers' families?
(a) $1,300.50.
(b) $368.66.
(c) $43.75.
(d) $675.25.
4. When Dr. Robert Humphries at the orthopedic hospital examined Edna Hussman's legs for the first time, what did he find?
(a) Her reflexes were abnormal.
(b) She was suffering from partial paralysis.
(c) Her left leg was an inch shorter than her right.
(d) There was a sarcoma embedded in her left leg.
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) Marguerite Carlough.
(c) Grace Fryer.
(d) Catherine Wolfe Donohue.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was the final amount of the lump sum paid by the United States Radium Corporation to each litigant?
2. Who bought a typewriter with part of her settlement money in hopes of beginning a career as a writer?
3. Marguerite Carlough died in the early morning hours of what holiday in 1925?
4. When Catherine Wolfe Donohue was too ill to continue as a dial-painter at Radium Dial, what job was she given instead?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the significance of Katherine Schaub's purchase of a typewriter with part of her settlement monies?
2. When Katherine Schaub slipped and fell on the steps up to her house in Newark, what was the doctor's diagnosis?
3. 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?
4. What were Raymond Berry's qualifications as a lawyer?
5. What were the differences between the statute of limitations in federal court, versus the statute of limitations in the courts of New Jersey?
6. What was particularly difficult about Peg Looney's stay in the company doctor's hospital prior to her death from radium poisoning?
7. What was the significance of many of the dial-painters buying cars with their settlement monies?
8. How did Raymond Berry find out that Dr. Frederick Flinn held no medical license of any kind?
9. What ray of hope emerged when a Russian doctor stepped forward to help with the dial-painters' care and what was the outcome?
10. Why did Edna Hussman not realize how badly she had been injured after her fall on the street?
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