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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what decade of life was Raymond Berry, Grace Fryer's lawyer, when she first contacted him?
(a) Twenties.
(b) Thirties.
(c) Fifties.
(d) Seventies.

2. Why did George Weeks, the Cruse family's lawyer, request several postponements in Ella Cruse's case?
(a) The Cruse family was running out of money.
(b) He knew nothing about radium poisoning.
(c) Ella suffered from nervous tension and needed time to prepare for trial.
(d) Ella was too ill to testify.

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

4. Marguerite Carlough died in the early morning hours of what holiday in 1925?
(a) Labor Day.
(b) Boxing Day.
(c) Halloween.
(d) Valentine's Day.

5. The list created by Katherine Schaub and Harrison Martland came to be known by what name?
(a) The List of the Vindicated.
(b) The List of the Brave.
(c) The List of the Doomed.
(d) The List of the Courageous.

6. What arrangements did Rufus Reed make for Peg Looney when she collapsed at work at Radium Dial in August of 1929?
(a) He arranged a leave of absence for her recuperation.
(b) He arranged for her to be admitted to the company doctor's hospital.
(c) He arranged for a company doctor to pronounce her as being in perfect health.
(d) He arranged for her to receive a severance package.

7. When Grace Fryer visited Dr. Robert Humphries, what adjective did he use to describe Grace's vertebrae upon examining her x-rays?
(a) Normal.
(b) Pulverized.
(c) Misaligned.
(d) Crushed.

8. What material did Rufus Reed use to construct a painting pen that was then given to the dial-painters as a suggested replacement for their brushes?
(a) Copper.
(b) Glass.
(c) Aluminum.
(d) Paper.

9. After Peg Looney became too ill to walk, Chuck Hackensmith would take her around the neighborhood in what?
(a) A motorcycle sidecar.
(b) A pair of rollerskates.
(c) A red metal wagon.
(d) A tandem bicycle.

10. Having hit multiple dead ends in her fight against the United States Radium Corporation, Grace Fryer contacted the lawyer Raymond Berry in May of what year?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1934.

11. To what hospital was Ella Cruse admitted when her pimple grew in size and caused her entire face to swell?
(a) Newark Hospital.
(b) General Hospital.
(c) Ottawa City Hospital.
(d) St. Columba Hospital.

12. In 1926, a law was passed that formally termed radium necrosis as what type of disease?
(a) Compensable.
(b) Deadly.
(c) Communicable.
(d) Industrial.

13. 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 had not used their glass pens for paint application.
(b) They said the women affected by so-called radium poisoning worked for companies that added mesothorium to its paint.
(c) They said the women affected by radium poisoning ate lunch in the same room with the radium paint.
(d) They said the women affected by so-called radium poisoning had actually contracted syphilis.

14. What period of time passed between the time Grace Fryer read about the United States Radium Corporation's first paid settlements and the filing of her own lawsuit against the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) One month.
(b) Five years.
(c) One year.
(d) Two days.

15. Who was NOT part of the group of five dial-painters who received settlements from the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) Marguerite Carlough.
(b) Grace Fryer.
(c) Katherine Schaub.
(d) Edna Hussman.

Short Answer Questions

1. While Catherine Wolfe Donohue noted that dial-painters in good health were examined often by Radium Dial-employed physicians, Catherine herself was only examined how many times in 1928?

2. In what city was St. Columba Church located?

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

4. What was NOT one of the reasons Raymond Berry worried about Judge William Clark being involved in the dial-painters' case?

5. Who gave her father $2,000 to pay off his mortgage once she had received her settlement?

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