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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. In what year was radium first discovered?
(a) 1882.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1898.

2. When Cecil K. Drinker found out that the United States Radium Corporation had suppressed his report, he made a deal with Arthur Roeder that he would not publish the report as long as Arthur Roeder immediately took what action?
(a) Instituted a set of safety measures to protect the dial-painters.
(b) Sent a full copy of the report to the New York Times for publication.
(c) Paid Cecil K. Drinker $50,000.
(d) Sent a full copy of the report to John Roach.

3. 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) 1-2 glasses per day.
(b) 12-14 glasses per day.
(c) 5-7 glasses per day.
(d) 2-3 glasses per day.

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

5. By 1925, Radium Dial became the largest dial-painting plant in the United States, supplying how many dials per day?
(a) 2,000.
(b) 4,300.
(c) 3,600.
(d) 1,000.

Short Answer 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?

2. Grace Fryer came from a family of how many children?

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

4. When Swen Kjaer from the Bureau of Labor Statistics conducted an investigation of Radium Dial's scientific laboratories in 1925, what two safeguards did he find the scientists using in their work with radium?

5. Why did Cecil K. Drinker refrain from publishing the report of his findings after his investigation of the United States Radium Company?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the author's evidence for the claim that radium made an "all-pervasive entry into American life"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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