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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. When John Roach, the deputy commissioner of the Department of Labor, heard that "the report supplied by the firm was a whitewash" (115), he requested a full copy of the study. What reason did Arthur Roeder give when he refused John Roach's request?
(a) The active lawsuit pending against the company prohibited any sharing of documents.
(b) The results could be damaging to the United States Radium Corporation's business dealings.
(c) Cecil K. Drinker would have to grant permission for the report to be sent.
(d) The report had been lost.

2. The blood tests Cecil K. Drinker performed on the dial-painters at the United States Radium Corporation elicited his finding that none of the dial-painters had what?
(a) Syphilis.
(b) Wholly normal blood.
(c) Radium poisoning.
(d) Hemophilia.

3. Who was the first of the United States dial-painters to file suit against her employer?
(a) Marguerite Carlough.
(b) Katherine Schaub.
(c) Grace Fryer.
(d) Peg Looney.

4. The paper dials painted by Radium Luminous Materials Corporation workers had black backgrounds and numerals of what color?
(a) Red.
(b) Green.
(c) Yellow.
(d) White.

5. 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) Human hair.
(c) Rabbit hair.
(d) Camel hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what discipline did Cecil K. Drinker work at the time he conducted a study at the United States Radium Corporation?

2. In 1924, New Jersey enacted "a new law that made industrial diseases compensable" (88), but any legal claim had to be filed within what time frame after the point of injury?

3. When Radium Dial conducted an internal investigation of its workers' health, how many of the dial-painters were told of their results?

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. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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