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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 Hazel Kuzer when she died of radium poisoning?
(a) 35.
(b) 25.
(c) 30.
(d) 40.

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

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

4. In 1923, what company acted as Radium Dial's main client, due to its 60% share of the U.S. alarm market?
(a) General Electric.
(b) Franklin.
(c) Masterclock, Inc.
(d) Westclox.

5. Who once remarked, "There may be a condition into which radium has not yet entered that would produce dire results; everybody handling it should have care," (18) though his advice was ignored by the industry?
(a) Isaac Newton.
(b) Thomas Edison.
(c) Anna Mooney.
(d) Nikola Tesla.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Swen Kjaer from the Bureau of Labor Statistics conducted an investigation of Radium Dial's scientific laboratories in 1925, what two safeguards did he find the scientists using in their work with radium?

2. What color was the mark the scientist found on his skin in 1901 after keeping a piece of radium in his pocket, as described in the book's prologue?

3. The radium powder at Radium Luminous Materials Corporation was mixed with what substance in order to create the luminous paint used to paint the dials?

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

5. What adjective did Arthur Roeder use in a letter to Cecil K. Drinker to describe his own response to Cecil K. Drinker's final findings about the United States Radium Corporation?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. 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?

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

5. How did the Radium Luminous Processes Corporation's postwar strategy differ from their World War I-era business strategies?

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

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

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

9. What actions comprised the technique known as lip-pointing and why was it done?

10. 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?

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