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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 period of time passed between the time Grace Fryer read about the United States Radium Corporation's first paid settlements and the filing of her own lawsuit against the United States Radium Corporation?
2. In what discipline did Dr. Frederick Flinn hold a Doctorate degree?
3. To what hospital was Ella Cruse admitted when her pimple grew in size and caused her entire face to swell?
4. Upon what condition did the United States Radium Corporation base its settlement pay-out to Mae Canfield?
5. Where did Catherine Wolfe meet her future husband, Tom Wolfe?
Short Essay Questions
1. Once the United States Radium Corporation had paid each of the five litigants $10,000 and had promised to pay all of their future medical bills, what conditions did the company insist upon?
2. What was the significance of Katherine Schaub's purchase of a typewriter with part of her settlement monies?
3. What indecent proposal did Dr. Joseph Knef make to the executives at the United States Radium Corporation?
4. What was the significance of many of the dial-painters buying cars with their settlement monies?
5. What were Raymond Berry's qualifications as a lawyer?
6. What was the significance of Sabin Von Sochocky's warning to Grace Fryer in the dial-painting studio?
7. What reasons does the narrator give for Grace Fryer's confusion when she heard that the United States Radium Corporation had rejected her offer to settle?
8. What was The List of the Doomed and who made it?
9. What was particularly difficult about Peg Looney's stay in the company doctor's hospital prior to her death from radium poisoning?
10. What were the differences between the statute of limitations in federal court, versus the statute of limitations in the courts of New Jersey?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How is the literary device of foreshadowing used to highlight coming events within the story of The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women?
Essay Topic 2
What is The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women's message regarding corporate greed?
Essay Topic 3
Examine Kate Moore's use of characterization methods to portray the lawyer Leonard Grossman. What effect do these characterization methods have on the book's inherent themes and messages?
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