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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. Arthur Roeder held what position at the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) Treasurer.
(b) President.
(c) Foreman.
(d) Company attorney.

2. Why was radium such a scarce resource?
(a) Radium was very difficult to extract from its source.
(b) Radium destroyed itself very quickly upon coming into contact with oxygen.
(c) The main continent on which radium could be found was Antarctica.
(d) Only one location in the world existed from which the radium could be extracted.

3. In January of 1924, what ultimatum did Dr. Barry give the girls he treated who worked at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?
(a) He said that if they did not file suit against the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation, he would refuse to treat them.
(b) He said that if they did not pay him in full, he would refuse to treat them.
(c) He said if they did not quit their jobs, he would refuse to treat them.
(d) He said that if they did not start brushing their teeth regularly, he would refuse to treat them.

4. From what industry was the term "lip-pointing" (56) inherited?
(a) China-painting.
(b) Lace-making.
(c) Chimney-sweeping.
(d) Embroidery.

5. What adjective did Arthur Roeder use in a letter to Cecil K. Drinker to describe his own response to Cecil K. Drinker's final findings about the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) Heartbroken.
(b) Angry.
(c) Panicked.
(d) Mystified.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. When Katherine Schaub first started working at Radium Luminous Materials Corporation, she was placed into an apprenticeship in what position?

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

5. Grace Fryer was motivated to take a position at Radium Luminous Materials Corporation by what reason?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why did radium poisoning victims often need another operation after they had just undergone one?

4. 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?

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

6. How successful was the Radium Dial company in 1925?

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

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

9. What is the author's purpose in depicting the scene of the lab workers' toiling at the Orange plant alongside the scene of the dial-painters working in the studio?

10. Who coined the term "radium jaw"? (95)

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