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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. Katherine Wiley of the Consumer League campaigned to have what disease added to the list of legally compensable occupational diseases?
(a) Phossy jaw.
(b) Syphilis.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Radium necrosis.

2. Grace Fryer came from a family of how many children?
(a) 10.
(b) 9.
(c) 8.
(d) 6.

3. On April 2, 1925, Arthur Roeder invited Frederick Hoffman to the Orange plant to use the new signs he had erected that warned workers not to put the radium paint-laden brushes in their mouths. In what field was Frederick Hoffman employed?
(a) Industrial waste.
(b) Disease control.
(c) Chemistry.
(d) Statistics.

4. In what discipline did Cecil K. Drinker work at the time he conducted a study at the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) Communicable disease.
(b) Occupational health.
(c) Industrial hygiene.
(d) Pharmaceutical safety.

5. How did Katherine Schaub come to work at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?
(a) A friend of hers told her about an open position there.
(b) She read about the job in a newspaper.
(c) She attended the Grand Opening of the building.
(d) She walked by the building one day on her way to school.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what position was Katherine Schaub promoted after the term of her apprenticeship?

2. Under state law in the early twentieth century in New Jersey, the Department of Labor had no authority to stop an industrial process even if it was what?

3. The blood tests Cecil K. Drinker performed on the dial-painters at the United States Radium Corporation elicited his finding that none of the dial-painters had what?

4. When John Roach, the deputy commissioner of the Department of Labor, heard that "the report supplied by the firm was a whitewash" (115), he requested a full copy of the study. What reason did Arthur Roeder give when he refused John Roach's request?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. Cecil K. Drinker's tour of the United States Radium Corporation plant took place on the day following what related event?

2. What two leads did Katherine Wiley pursue after the death of Hazel Kuser?

3. What were the findings of the first-ever autopsy on a dial-painter?

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

6. In 1917, what was the reputation of radium in America?

7. What is the significance of the choice by the Radium Luminous Material Corporation to use the term "studio" (3) to mean the worksite?

8. How lucrative was the job of dial-painting in relation to other options available to young women of the time?

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

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

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