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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 20-30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Part of the allure of the jobs available at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation was that the site of business was called a what, rather than a factory?
(a) A paradise.
(b) A warehouse.
(c) A studio.
(d) A internship site.

2. How old was Katherine Schaub when she first started working at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?
(a) 11.
(b) 14.
(c) 18.
(d) 16.

3. What was the amount of the lowest settlement offered by the Waterbury Company to one of its former workers' families?
(a) $43.75.
(b) $368.66.
(c) $675.25.
(d) $1,300.50.

4. For what period of time did Swen Kjaer's national study of the radium dial-painting industry last?
(a) Three years.
(b) Three months.
(c) Three weeks.
(d) One year.

5. 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?
(a) 18 months.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 3 years.
(d) 6 months.

Short Answer Questions

1. Attorneys were reluctant to take Grace Fryer's case due to the United States Radium Corporation's status as all but which of the following?

2. Where did Catherine Wolfe meet her future husband, Tom Wolfe?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. In what discipline did Dr. Frederick Flinn hold a Doctorate degree?

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