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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 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?
(a) They said the women affected by radium poisoning had not used their glass pens for paint application.
(b) They said the women affected by so-called radium poisoning had actually contracted syphilis.
(c) They said the women affected by so-called radium poisoning worked for companies that added mesothorium to its paint.
(d) They said the women affected by radium poisoning ate lunch in the same room with the radium paint.

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 wrote to Cecil K. Drinker and enclosed photographs of Grace Fryer's disfigurement.
(d) He paid him $1,000.

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

4. In what city was St. Columba Church located?
(a) Orange.
(b) Ottawa.
(c) Newark.
(d) Hoboken.

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?
(a) Five years.
(b) One year.
(c) Two days.
(d) One month.

Short Answer Questions

1. What material did Rufus Reed use to construct a painting pen that was then given to the dial-painters as a suggested replacement for their brushes?

2. In what season and year did Katherine Schaub and Harrison Martland begin creating their list of radium victims?

3. What types of product were produced by the Waterbury Company in Connecticut?

4. What was Catherine Wolfe Donohue told when she asked the Radium Dial Company for the results of the medical tests they had recently performed on her?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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. 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?

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

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

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