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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who gave her father $2,000 to pay off his mortgage once she had received her settlement?
(a) Grace Fryer.
(b) Marguerite Carlough.
(c) Catherine Wolfe Donohue.
(d) Katherine Schaub.

2. What was the reaction of James Ewing when the five young women he breath-tested for radium tested positive for radioactivity?
(a) He stepped down as an involved physician.
(b) He wondered if there were fraud involved and suggested they conduct another examination at a hotel.
(c) He reported the positive results to the Department of Health.
(d) He thought the test instruments were faulty.

3. At what type of establishment did Grace Fryer work after she left her position as a dial-painter?
(a) A pharmacy.
(b) A school.
(c) A bank.
(d) A library.

4. When George L. Warren, the county physician for Essex County, died on a trolley ride, who replaced him and eventually became a champion for the dial-painters' cause?
(a) Dr. Elroy Roeder.
(b) Dr. Harrison Martland.
(c) Dr. Roy Schneider.
(d) Dr. Max Schwimmer.

5. Whose family first joined the lawsuit Marguerite Carlough had filed against the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) Hazel Kuzer.
(b) Nellie Quinlan.
(c) Helen Quinlan.
(d) Frances Splettstocher.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Cecil K. Drinker found out that the United States Radium Corporation had suppressed his report, he made a deal with Arthur Roeder that he would not publish the report as long as Arthur Roeder immediately took what action?

2. Who was the first of the United States dial-painters to file suit against her employer?

3. In what discipline did Cecil K. Drinker work at the time he conducted a study at 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. Whose family filed suit against Radium Dial the day after Radium Dial ran its full-page ad in the Ottawa Daily Times?

(see the answer key)

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