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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Most of the dial-painters who received settlements from the United States Radium Corporation did what during the following summer?
(a) Checked into the hospital.
(b) Died.
(c) Went on trips.
(d) Became paraplegics.

2. Who was the appointed physician for the five girls who won settlements from the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) Lloyd Craver.
(b) Edward Krumbhaar.
(c) Raymond Berry.
(d) James Ewing.

3. For what necessary element of the Cruses' case did they not have funds to pay?
(a) A series of bone x-rays.
(b) The down payment to the lawyer.
(c) An exhumation of Ella's body.
(d) A radioactivity test of Ella's breath.

4. Where did Catherine Wolfe meet her future husband, Tom Wolfe?
(a) At the library.
(b) At church.
(c) At a picnic.
(d) At school.

5. What color was the mark the scientist found on his skin in 1901 after keeping a piece of radium in his pocket, as described in the book's prologue?
(a) Black.
(b) Red.
(c) Green.
(d) Brown.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Raymond Berry eventually get Cecil K. Drinker to testify in court?

2. Katherine Wiley of the Consumer League campaigned to have what disease added to the list of legally compensable occupational diseases?

3. 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?

4. What was the main claim of the full-page ad in the Ottawa Daily Times placed by Radium Dial three days after the New Jersey settlements?

5. What newspaper was "arguably the most powerful newspaper in America at the time" (195) and helped to spread the word about the dial-painters' plight?

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