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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) The Chicago Sun Times.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) The World.
(d) The Newark Tribune.

2. On what behavior of the dial-painters' did Frederick Flinn blame their "tendency to store radium in their bones" (242)?
(a) Their poor eyesight.
(b) Their carelessness with the luminous paint.
(c) Their poor eating habits.
(d) Their poor hygiene habits.

3. How long were the painting pens in use at Radium Dial before they were abandoned?
(a) One week.
(b) Three years.
(c) Three months.
(d) One month.

4. Though a normal blood count should be 100%, Marguerite Carlough's blood eventually reached what percentage prior to her death?
(a) 30%.
(b) 60%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 70%.

5. What was NOT one of the reasons Raymond Berry worried about Judge William Clark being involved in the dial-painters' case?
(a) He knew that the judge was friends with several directors at the United States Radium Corporation.
(b) He knew that the judge had some indirect business relations with directors of a parent company of the United States Radium Corporation.
(c) He knew that the judge had a cruel streak.
(d) He learned that the judge was a stockholder in the United States Radium Corporation.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what church was the funeral for Quinta McDonald held?

2. Attorneys were reluctant to take Grace Fryer's case due to the United States Radium Corporation's status as all but which of the following?

3. When Catherine Wolfe Donohue was too ill to continue as a dial-painter at Radium Dial, what job was she given instead?

4. 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?

5. What was Catherine Wolfe Donohue told when she asked the Radium Dial Company for the results of the medical tests they had recently performed on her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the significance of many of the dial-painters buying cars with their settlement monies?

2. How did Raymond Berry find out that Dr. Frederick Flinn held no medical license of any kind?

3. What prevented the Cruse family from pursuing their case against Radium Dial to hold them accountable in the death of Ella Cruse?

4. What reasons does the narrator give for Grace Fryer's confusion when she heard that the United States Radium Corporation had rejected her offer to settle?

5. What were Quinta McDonald's two requests that were made before her death and what were the results of her requests?

6. What were the differences between the statute of limitations in federal court, versus the statute of limitations in the courts of New Jersey?

7. What was the significance of Katherine Schaub's purchase of a typewriter with part of her settlement monies?

8. What ray of hope emerged when a Russian doctor stepped forward to help with the dial-painters' care and what was the outcome?

9. What types of trouble did dial-painters experience when they tried to have children?

10. What was the significance of Sabin Von Sochocky's warning to Grace Fryer in the dial-painting studio?

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