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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. How old was Katherine Schaub when she first started working at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?
(a) 16.
(b) 11.
(c) 14.
(d) 18.

2. 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?
(a) Dr. Elroy Roeder.
(b) Dr. Harrison Martland.
(c) Dr. Roy Schneider.
(d) Dr. Max Schwimmer.

3. On what day in 1917 did Congress vote America into joining World War I?
(a) May 18th.
(b) April 6th.
(c) October 30th.
(d) June 6th.

4. 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?
(a) Medical experts.
(b) Lead gloves.
(c) Ivory-tipped forceps.
(d) Lead aprons.

5. When Swen Kjaer from the Bureau of Labor Statistics conducted an investigation of Radium Dial's operations in 1925, how many dial-painters at the Ottawa studio were questioned?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Fifty.
(c) One hundred.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. Until 1922, Cecil K. Drinker's department at Harvard was wholly funded by what source?

2. When the girls at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation started to worry that the paint they used may be dangerous, doctors from New York came and assured the girls that the paint was harmless due to what reason?

3. Grace Fryer came from a family of how many children?

4. In 1923, what company acted as Radium Dial's main client, due to its 60% share of the U.S. alarm market?

5. What type of hair was used in the brushes with which the girls painted the dials at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was the first dial-painter to file a lawsuit against a radium company?

2. What actions did the United States Radium Corporation take once they received Cecil K. Drinker's full report regarding its employees on June 3, 1924?

3. Who coined the term "radium jaw"? (95)

4. 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?

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

6. Why did Hazel Kuser's family refuse to allow friends to see her body at her funeral?

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

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

9. Why did radium poisoning victims often need another operation after they had just undergone one?

10. What came of the national study of the industrial use of radium launched by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in April of 1925?

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