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

2. Who bought a typewriter with part of her settlement money in hopes of beginning a career as a writer?
(a) Marguerite Carlough.
(b) Katherine Schaub.
(c) Edna Hussman.
(d) Grace Fryer.

3. 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?
(a) Twice.
(b) Five times.
(c) Once.
(d) Three times.

4. In what year did Catherine Wolfe and Tom Donohue marry?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1925.

5. How many surgeries did Grace Fryer ultimately have performed on her jaw?
(a) 15.
(b) 25.
(c) 6.
(d) 11.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said, "It is not for myself I care. I am thinking more of the hundreds of girls to whom this [settlement] may serve as an example" (232)?

2. Where did Catherine Wolfe meet her future husband, Tom Wolfe?

3. After Peg Looney became too ill to walk, Chuck Hackensmith would take her around the neighborhood in what?

4. Marguerite Carlough died in the early morning hours of what holiday in 1925?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When Radium Dial issued a summary of Peg Looney's autopsy report to the local paper, what information that they furnished was then added to Peg Looney's obituary?

3. 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?

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

5. What were the reasons for attorneys' reluctance to take a dial-painter's case against the United States Radium Corporation?

6. What indecent proposal did Dr. Joseph Knef make to the executives at the United States Radium Corporation?

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

8. Who resigned from the United States Radium Corporation in July of 1926 and why?

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

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

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