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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. By whom was radium discovered?
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) Marie and Pierre Curie.
(d) Isaac Newton.

2. How did Katherine Schaub come to work at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?
(a) She attended the Grand Opening of the building.
(b) A friend of hers told her about an open position there.
(c) She walked by the building one day on her way to school.
(d) She read about the job in a newspaper.

3. What amount of money did the first suit filed by a dial-painter request from the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) $50,000.
(b) $30,000.
(c) $90,000.
(d) $75,000.

4. Grace Fryer came from a family of how many children?
(a) 9.
(b) 6.
(c) 8.
(d) 10.

5. 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?
(a) Lead gloves.
(b) Medical experts.
(c) Lead aprons.
(d) Ivory-tipped forceps.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What adjective did the discoverer of radium use often to describe the element?

4. Until 1922, Cecil K. Drinker's department at Harvard was wholly funded by what source?

5. From what industry was the term "lip-pointing" (56) inherited?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

6. What is the author's tone when ending Chapter 11 with the words, "After all-now it was bad for business" (79)?

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

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

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

10. 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?

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