The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women Quiz | One Week Quiz A

Kate Moore
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women Quiz | One Week Quiz A

Kate Moore
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 31-45.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) If she took a lump sum, she would no longer be required to be examined by company-appointed doctors.
(b) The United States Radium Corporation was going to move overseas.
(c) The United States Radium Corporation was near bankruptcy.
(d) The United States Radium Corporation was about to be dissolved.

2. In what season and year did Katherine Schaub and Harrison Martland begin creating their list of radium victims?
(a) Summer of 1925.
(b) Fall of 1921.
(c) Winter of 1932.
(d) Spring of 1928.

3. When Edna Hussman was examined by Dr. Frederick Flinn, what conclusion did he reach that he then shared with Edna Hussman?
(a) She had arthritic joints.
(b) Her blood was abnormal.
(c) She was in perfect health.
(d) She had syphilis.

4. To whom did Katherine Schaub write a sincere letter of thanks in the summer of 1928?
(a) Mollie Maggia.
(b) Raymond Berry.
(c) Arthur Roeder.
(d) Frederick Flinn.

5. Katherine Wiley of the Consumer League campaigned to have what disease added to the list of legally compensable occupational diseases?
(a) Phossy jaw.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Radium necrosis.
(d) Syphilis.

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. To what hospital was Ella Cruse admitted when her pimple grew in size and caused her entire face to swell?

3. For what period of time did Swen Kjaer's national study of the radium dial-painting industry last?

4. What diagnosis did Dr. Humphries in Orange provide to Quinta McDonald before he bound her in plaster from "her diaphragm to her knees" (95)?

5. Which two executives from Radium Dial attended the national radium conference in December of 1928?

(see the answer key)

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