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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. In 1924, New Jersey enacted "a new law that made industrial diseases compensable" (88), but any legal claim had to be filed within what time frame after the point of injury?
(a) Five months.
(b) One year.
(c) Five years.
(d) Two years.

2. What was the name of Katherine Schaub's trainer in her first apprenticeship position at Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?
(a) Grace Fryer.
(b) Catherine Wolfe.
(c) Marguerite Glacinski.
(d) Mae Cubberley.

3. On what street was Radium Luminous Materials Corporation located?
(a) Fourth Street.
(b) Tenth Street.
(c) Third Street.
(d) Ninety-first Street.

4. The city of Newark, New Jersey was termed the city of what?
(a) Opportunity.
(b) Upward movement.
(c) New beginnings.
(d) Freedom.

5. What amount of money did the first suit filed by a dial-painter request from the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) $90,000.
(b) $75,000.
(c) $50,000.
(d) $30,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. When George L. Warren, the county physician for Essex County, died on a trolley ride, who replaced him and eventually became a champion for the dial-painters' cause?

2. The author points out that in contrast to the radium testing labs, where the scientists took precautions with radium, the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation studio workers took no precautions. What item is NOT on the list the author gives of the items missing from the studio workers' lives?

3. When Cecil K. Drinker found out that the United States Radium Corporation had suppressed his report, he made a deal with Arthur Roeder that he would not publish the report as long as Arthur Roeder immediately took what action?

4. Katherine Wiley of the Consumer League campaigned to have what disease added to the list of legally compensable occupational diseases?

5. On what day in 1917 did Congress vote America into joining World War I?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who were the primary producers of positive literature about radium?

2. The Radium Luminous Materials Corporation's radium-laden paint was used to create what type of objects?

3. What was the size of the smallest object the dial-painters at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation had to paint and what size was the tiniest element of their painting?

4. What is the author's evidence for the claim that radium made an "all-pervasive entry into American life"?

5. What were Arthur Roeder's criteria when he chose someone to conduct a study of the Orange plant and whom did he choose?

6. What led to many members of the same family working as dial-painters?

7. What is the author's purpose in depicting the scene of the lab workers' toiling at the Orange plant alongside the scene of the dial-painters working in the studio?

8. What is the author's tone when ending Chapter 11 with the words, "After all-now it was bad for business" (79)?

9. Who wrote to Katherine Wiley, the executive secretary of the Consumers League, a national organization for better working conditions for women, and for what purpose was she contacted?

10. How successful was the Radium Dial company in 1925?

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