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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. Before dipping their brushes into the radium, what action were the dial-painters at Radium Luminous Materials Corporation instructed to take?
(a) To dip their brushes into the pot of phosphorous.
(b) To put the brush behind their ears.
(c) To swirl the brush's end against their clothing.
(d) To put the brush to their lips.

2. Katherine Wiley of the Consumer League campaigned to have what disease added to the list of legally compensable occupational diseases?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) Radium necrosis.
(c) Syphilis.
(d) Phossy jaw.

3. 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) In-person meetings.
(b) Telegrams.
(c) Phone calls.
(d) Letters.

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

5. For what period of time did Swen Kjaer's national study of the radium dial-painting industry last?
(a) One year.
(b) Three weeks.
(c) Three years.
(d) Three months.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose family first joined the lawsuit Marguerite Carlough had filed against the United States Radium Corporation?

2. By whom was Dr. Frederick Flinn paid when he researched the possible harm being caused by various companies' use of radium?

3. What did Sabin von Schocky do when he found that radium had gotten into his left index finger?

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. In what year was the first suit filed by a dial-painter, in this case against the United States Radium Corporation?

Short Essay Questions

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

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. How successful was the Radium Dial company in 1925?

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

5. 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?

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

7. 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?

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

9. 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?

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

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