The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women Test | Final Test - Hard

Kate Moore
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women Test | Final Test - Hard

Kate Moore
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 199 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. To whom did Katherine Schaub write a sincere letter of thanks in the summer of 1928?

2. For how long did The United States Radium Corporation fight the first lawsuits filed by dial-painters before they settled with the workers out of court?

3. Katherine Wiley launched a campaign to amend what type of law that affected the dial-painters?

4. At what type of establishment did Grace Fryer work after she left her position as a dial-painter?

5. Who gave her father $2,000 to pay off his mortgage once she had received her settlement?

Short Essay Questions

1. What prevented the Cruse family from pursuing their case against Radium Dial to hold them accountable in the death of Ella Cruse?

2. What were Raymond Berry's qualifications as a lawyer?

3. What was the significance of Katherine Schaub's purchase of a typewriter with part of her settlement monies?

4. What was particularly difficult about Peg Looney's stay in the company doctor's hospital prior to her death from radium poisoning?

5. Who resigned from the United States Radium Corporation in July of 1926 and why?

6. How did Raymond Berry find out that Dr. Frederick Flinn held no medical license of any kind?

7. What was the significance of Sabin Von Sochocky's warning to Grace Fryer in the dial-painting studio?

8. What types of trouble did dial-painters experience when they tried to have children?

9. Why did Edna Hussman not realize how badly she had been injured after her fall on the street?

10. What indecent proposal did Dr. Joseph Knef make to the executives at the United States Radium Corporation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the author's treatment of the climactic scene of the dial-painters' final trial and what techniques she uses in order to build suspense for the reader.

Essay Topic 3

What is the author's treatment of gender within the events of the book? How does she get across to the reader the connection between the dial-painters' treatment by their employers and their status as women in America? Craft a specific and clear claim regarding the author's treatment of gender and use textual details to support your claim.

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