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

2. What form did the ongoing argument between Cecil K. Drinker and Arthur Roeder take in 1924 after Cecil K. Drinker's investigation resulted in his claim that radium was causing harm to the dial-painters at the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) Telegrams.
(b) In-person meetings.
(c) Letters.
(d) Phone calls.

3. What did Sabin von Schocky do when he found that radium had gotten into his left index finger?
(a) He poured milk on it to counteract the radium's effects.
(b) He cut the tip of his finger off.
(c) He kept ice on his finger for 24 hours.
(d) He set his finger on fire.

4. What adjective did the discoverer of radium use often to describe the element?
(a) Wondrous.
(b) Beautiful.
(c) Dangerous.
(d) Enigmatic.

5. 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?
(a) Safety glasses and limited working hours.
(b) Lead aprons and safety glasses.
(c) Protective suits and gloves.
(d) Lead screens and vacations from work.

Short Answer Questions

1. In February of 1925, the creator of the luminous paint, Sabin von Sochocky, wrote to the investigating statistician Dr. Hoffman in order to tell him that "the disease in question is, without doubt" (109) what type of disease?

2. By 1925, Radium Dial became the largest dial-painting plant in the United States, supplying how many dials per day?

3. 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?

4. Who once remarked, "There may be a condition into which radium has not yet entered that would produce dire results; everybody handling it should have care," (18) though his advice was ignored by the industry?

5. How did Katherine Schaub come to work at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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. Why did Hazel Kuser's family refuse to allow friends to see her body at her funeral?

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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