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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 46-56.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who once remarked, "There may be a condition into which radium has not yet entered that would produce dire results; everybody handling it should have care," (18) though his advice was ignored by the industry?
(a) Isaac Newton.
(b) Anna Mooney.
(c) Nikola Tesla.
(d) Thomas Edison.

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 library.
(d) A bank.

4. What position did Anna Rooney hold at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?
(a) Inspector.
(b) Accountant.
(c) Insurance claims adjuster.
(d) Forewoman.

5. What diagnosis did Dr. Humphries in Orange provide to Quinta McDonald before he bound her in plaster from "her diaphragm to her knees" (95)?
(a) Scoliosis.
(b) Radium poisoning.
(c) An arthritic hip.
(d) Thoracic outlet syndrome.

Short Answer Questions

1. In January of 1924, what ultimatum did Dr. Barry give the girls he treated who worked at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?

2. Katherine Wiley launched a campaign to amend what type of law that affected the dial-painters?

3. When Edna Hussman stumbled on the street and her husband helped her to walk to the hospital, what was the doctor's diagnosis?

4. What amount of money did the first suit filed by a dial-painter request from the United States Radium Corporation?

5. The list created by Katherine Schaub and Harrison Martland came to be known by what name?

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