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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. 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?
2. 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?
3. What amount of money did the first suit filed by a dial-painter request from the United States Radium Corporation?
4. Who looked pointedly at Grace Fryer on one instance within the studio and warned her not to lip-point, a comment that would later take on great significance in court?
5. As the most valuable substance on earth, how much did a single gram of radium cost in 1917?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Hazel Kuser's family refuse to allow friends to see her body at her funeral?
2. What is the author's evidence for the claim that radium made an "all-pervasive entry into American life"?
3. What were Arthur Roeder's criteria when he chose someone to conduct a study of the Orange plant and whom did he choose?
4. What two leads did Katherine Wiley pursue after the death of Hazel Kuser?
5. 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?
6. What actions comprised the technique known as lip-pointing and why was it done?
7. Who coined the term "radium jaw"? (95)
8. Cecil K. Drinker's tour of the United States Radium Corporation plant took place on the day following what related event?
9. What came of the national study of the industrial use of radium launched by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in April of 1925?
10. Who were the primary producers of positive literature about radium?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss three different women that appear within the book's narrative and compare and contrast their characteristics. How do their roles differ and how are their roles similar? Taken together, what depiction of women is present in the overall narrative? Choose concrete details about all three women to support your points.
Essay Topic 2
Examine the role of the luminous paint inventor, Sabin Von Sochocky, within the events depicted in The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women. How does the author use his role to highlight the themes within the overall narrative?
Essay Topic 3
What is the author's message regarding justice within The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women?
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