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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. 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?
(a) In the photographs, the bowls are empty.
(b) In the photographs, the bowls contain only radium dust.
(c) In the photographs, there are no bowls at all.
(d) In the photographs, the bowls are turned over.

2. Until 1922, Cecil K. Drinker's department at Harvard was wholly funded by what source?
(a) The Drinker family's wealth.
(b) Taxes.
(c) Commercial firms.
(d) Government grants.

3. What type of hair was used in the brushes with which the girls painted the dials at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?
(a) Horse hair.
(b) Camel hair.
(c) Human hair.
(d) Rabbit hair.

4. 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) Medical experts.
(c) Ivory-tipped forceps.
(d) Lead aprons.

5. Marketed to wealthy clients, a radium lined-jar that could be filled with water to make the water radioactive was recommended in what dose per day?
(a) 12-14 glasses per day.
(b) 5-7 glasses per day.
(c) 2-3 glasses per day.
(d) 1-2 glasses per day.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what street was Radium Luminous Materials Corporation located?

2. What adjective did the discoverer of radium use often to describe the element?

3. What role did Josiah Stryker inhabit within the United States Radium Corporation?

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

5. Sabin von Schocky held what position at Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In 1917, what was the reputation of radium in America?

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

5. How lucrative was the job of dial-painting in relation to other options available to young women of the time?

6. What actions comprised the technique known as lip-pointing and why was it done?

7. What came of the national study of the industrial use of radium launched by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in April of 1925?

8. What two leads did Katherine Wiley pursue after the death of Hazel Kuser?

9. 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?

10. What led to many members of the same family working as dial-painters?

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