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

2. The author points out that in contrast to the radium testing labs, where the scientists took precautions with radium, the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation studio workers took no precautions. What item is NOT on the list the author gives of the items missing from the studio workers' lives?
(a) Lead gloves.
(b) Ivory-tipped forceps.
(c) Lead aprons.
(d) Medical experts.

3. How old was Katherine Schaub when she first started working at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?
(a) 16.
(b) 11.
(c) 18.
(d) 14.

4. In what year was radium first discovered?
(a) 1898.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1882.

5. Who appealed to The United States Radium Corporation to monetarily help his patient, Hazel Cuzer, with her medical bills, and was turned down by the company?
(a) Dr. Mayweather Marion.
(b) Dr. Ernest Miser.
(c) Dr. Anthony Cruz.
(d) Dr. Theodore Blum.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The city of Newark, New Jersey was termed the city of what?

4. 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?

5. On what day in 1917 did Congress vote America into joining World War I?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What were Arthur Roeder's criteria when he chose someone to conduct a study of the Orange plant and whom did he choose?

5. The Radium Luminous Materials Corporation's radium-laden paint was used to create what type of objects?

6. 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?

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

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

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

10. Who was the first dial-painter to file a lawsuit against a radium company?

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