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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. Why did Cecil K. Drinker refrain from publishing the report of his findings after his investigation of the United States Radium Company?
(a) The newspaper who bought the rights to Cecil K. Drinker's report went bankrupt before they could publish the report.
(b) Cecil K. Drinker believed Arthur Roeder should first give consent for publication of the report.
(c) Cecil K. Drinker was by then a pariah in the scientific community and could not find a publisher.
(d) Cecil K. Drinker was paid by the United States Radium Corporation to suppress the report's findings.

2. Whose family first joined the lawsuit Marguerite Carlough had filed against the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) Hazel Kuzer.
(b) Frances Splettstocher.
(c) Helen Quinlan.
(d) Nellie Quinlan.

3. The greenish-white luminous paint used to paint the watch dials went by what name?
(a) Luminest.
(b) Unblack.
(c) Undark.
(d) Lighterous.

4. Most dial-painters in the United States were the daughters and granddaughters of whom?
(a) Immigrants.
(b) Scientists.
(c) Industrialists.
(d) Socialists.

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?
(a) A internship site.
(b) A studio.
(c) A warehouse.
(d) A paradise.

Short Answer Questions

1. In early-twentith century popular culture, radium was dubbed as liquid what?

2. What position did Anna Rooney hold at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?

3. By whom was Edna Hussman employed when she was examined by Dr. Frederick Flinn?

4. Cecil K. Drinker's investigative report into radium poisoning stated that radium has a similar chemical nature to what element?

5. Who was the first of the United States dial-painters to file suit against her employer?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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