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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12-19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who looked pointedly at Grace Fryer on one instance within the studio and warned her not to lip-point, a comment that would later take on great significance in court?
(a) Katherine Schaub.
(b) Grace Fryer.
(c) Sabin von Schocky.
(d) Mollie Maggia.

2. Katherine Wiley, the woman who conducted an independent investigation into the health of the dial-painters at the United States Radium Corporation, worked for what organization?
(a) The Justice League.
(b) The Consumers League.
(c) The Workers' Rights League.
(d) The League of Women Voters.

3. By 1925, Radium Dial became the largest dial-painting plant in the United States, supplying how many dials per day?
(a) 2,000.
(b) 4,300.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 3,600.

4. How old was Hazel Kuzer when she died of radium poisoning?
(a) 30.
(b) 25.
(c) 35.
(d) 40.

5. The paper dials painted by Radium Luminous Materials Corporation workers had black backgrounds and numerals of what color?
(a) White.
(b) Green.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Red.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. In 1924, New Jersey enacted "a new law that made industrial diseases compensable" (88), but any legal claim had to be filed within what time frame after the point of injury?

4. Most dial-painters in the United States were the daughters and granddaughters of whom?

5. What was the name of Katherine Schaub's trainer in her first apprenticeship position at Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?

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