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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In January of 1927, Grace Fryer was fitted with a solid steel back brace that she was forbidden to abandon for longer than what period at a time?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Two days.
(c) Two minutes.
(d) Two hours.

2. What did October 29, 1929 come to be called?
(a) Black Tuesday.
(b) Black Friday.
(c) Black Sunday.
(d) Black Wednesday.

3. 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 was too ill to testify.
(d) Ella suffered from nervous tension and needed time to prepare for trial.

4. 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) Her mother's funeral.
(b) Trial dates.
(c) Grocery shopping.
(d) Church.

5. Who was tasked with conducting a nationwide study into the effects of radium poisoning?
(a) Frederick Flinn.
(b) Swen Kjaer.
(c) Leonard Grossman.
(d) Harrison Martland.

6. How did Raymond Berry eventually get Cecil K. Drinker to testify in court?
(a) He issued a formal summons through the court.
(b) He wrote to Cecil K. Drinker and enclosed photographs of Grace Fryer's disfigurement.
(c) He threatened to tarnish the researcher's name in the scientific community.
(d) He paid him $1,000.

7. Due to radium poisoning, Edna Hussman's legs eventually took on what condition?
(a) Her legs had no feeling in them.
(b) Her legs were perpetually fractured.
(c) Her legs would not bend at the knee.
(d) Her legs were irrevocably crossed.

8. When the Westclox company hit a new production high of 1.5 million luminous watches in 1926, what percentage of the watches were painted by Radium Dial?
(a) 80%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 30%.
(d) 100%.

9. For how long did The United States Radium Corporation fight the first lawsuits filed by dial-painters before they settled with the workers out of court?
(a) 3 years.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 18 months.
(d) 6 months.

10. What types of product were produced by the Waterbury Company in Connecticut?
(a) Clocks.
(b) Paints.
(c) Batteries.
(d) Pocket watches.

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

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

13. What response did Dr. Hoffman receive when he wrote to Arthur Roeder, asking him to help Grace Fryer "in a spirit of fairness and justice" (175)?
(a) Arthur Roeder requested a restraining order against Dr. Hoffman.
(b) Arthur Roeder told Dr. Hoffman that he did not know anyone named Grace Fryer.
(c) Dr. Hoffman was told that Arthur Roeder no longer worked for the United States Radium Corporation.
(d) Arthur Roeder sent Dr. Hoffman $100 to give to Grace Fryer.

14. 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 so-called radium poisoning had actually contracted syphilis.
(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 radium poisoning ate lunch in the same room with the radium paint.

15. 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) $675.25.
(d) $43.75.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dr. Harrison Martland believed that radium was notoriously less what than mesothorium?

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

3. 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?

4. In what decade of life was Raymond Berry, Grace Fryer's lawyer, when she first contacted him?

5. What crucial piece of information did Raymond Berry uncover about Dr. Frederick Flinn, who was working as an expert witness for several radium companies?

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