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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. Though during Swen Kjaer's visit to the Radium Dial studio in Ottowa, he saw water bowls being used by the dial-painters to clean their brushes, how does his observation during the visit differ from photographs he is given at a later date?
2. In what discipline did Cecil K. Drinker work at the time he conducted a study at the United States Radium Corporation?
3. Katherine Wiley of the Consumer League campaigned to have what disease added to the list of legally compensable occupational diseases?
4. Katherine Wiley, the woman who conducted an independent investigation into the health of the dial-painters at the United States Radium Corporation, worked for what organization?
5. Part of the allure of the jobs available at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation was that the site of business was called a what, rather than a factory?
Short Essay Questions
1. What were the findings of the first-ever autopsy on a dial-painter?
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. In 1917, what was the reputation of radium in America?
4. 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?
5. 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?
6. Who coined the term "radium jaw"? (95)
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. The Radium Luminous Materials Corporation's radium-laden paint was used to create what type of objects?
9. Who was the first dial-painter to file a lawsuit against a radium company?
10. What two leads did Katherine Wiley pursue after the death of Hazel Kuser?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the significance of the dentist Dr. Knef's false discovery that Mollie Maggia was positive for syphilis? How does this event connect to the narrative's overarching themes?
Essay Topic 2
What is The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women's message regarding corporate greed?
Essay Topic 3
How does the author's use of the omniscient third person point of view serve her purposes over the course of the book? Discuss how Kate Moore's choice of point of view helps to advance her treatment of at least three particular themes within the text.
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