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

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 ate lunch in the same room with the radium paint.
(b) They said the women affected by radium poisoning had not used their glass pens for paint application.
(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 so-called radium poisoning had actually contracted syphilis.

2. What was the final amount of the lump sum paid by the United States Radium Corporation to each litigant?
(a) $15,000.
(b) $5,000.
(c) $10,000.
(d) $3,600.

3. What song about radium became a hit after being featured in the Broadway musical Piff! Paff! Pouf!?
(a) Radium City.
(b) Radium Racket.
(c) Radium Dance.
(d) Radium Romance.

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

5. Once Katherine Schaub started staying at home and refusing to go out, what was the only occasion to get her out of the house?
(a) Trial dates.
(b) Grocery shopping.
(c) Her mother's funeral.
(d) Church.

Short Answer Questions

1. Due to radium poisoning, Edna Hussman's legs eventually took on what condition?

2. How did Katherine Schaub come to work at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?

3. What did October 29, 1929 come to be called?

4. The paper dials painted by Radium Luminous Materials Corporation workers had black backgrounds and numerals of what color?

5. When The United States Radium Corporation settled its first lawsuits filed by dial-painters, how many former workers were paid by the company?

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