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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. Arthur Roeder held what position at the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) Company attorney.
(b) Treasurer.
(c) President.
(d) Foreman.

2. Katherine Wiley, the woman who conducted an independent investigation into the health of the dial-painters at the United States Radium Corporation, worked for what organization?
(a) The Justice League.
(b) The League of Women Voters.
(c) The Consumers League.
(d) The Workers' Rights League.

3. 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 screens and vacations from work.
(c) Lead aprons and safety glasses.
(d) Protective suits and gloves.

4. What was the name of Katherine Schaub's trainer in her first apprenticeship position at Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?
(a) Catherine Wolfe.
(b) Grace Fryer.
(c) Mae Cubberley.
(d) Marguerite Glacinski.

5. In what discipline did Cecil K. Drinker work at the time he conducted a study at the United States Radium Corporation?
(a) Industrial hygiene.
(b) Occupational health.
(c) Pharmaceutical safety.
(d) Communicable disease.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of hair was used in the brushes with which the girls painted the dials at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?

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?

3. Why was radium such a scarce resource?

4. On what day in 1917 did Congress vote America into joining World War I?

5. What diagnosis did Dr. Humphries in Orange provide to Quinta McDonald before he bound her in plaster from "her diaphragm to her knees" (95)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

6. In 1917, what was the reputation of radium in America?

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

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

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

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