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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Until 1922, Cecil K. Drinker's department at Harvard was wholly funded by what source?
2. What amount of money did the first suit filed by a dial-painter request from the United States Radium Corporation?
3. What adjective did Arthur Roeder use in a letter to Cecil K. Drinker to describe his own response to Cecil K. Drinker's final findings about the United States Radium Corporation?
4. When George L. Warren, the county physician for Essex County, died on a trolley ride, who replaced him and eventually became a champion for the dial-painters' cause?
5. How did Katherine Schaub come to work at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?
Short Essay Questions
1. How lucrative was the job of dial-painting in relation to other options available to young women of the time?
2. How successful was the Radium Dial company in 1925?
3. What two leads did Katherine Wiley pursue after the death of Hazel Kuser?
4. The Radium Luminous Materials Corporation's radium-laden paint was used to create what type of objects?
5. Cecil K. Drinker's tour of the United States Radium Corporation plant took place on the day following what related event?
6. How did the Radium Luminous Processes Corporation's postwar strategy differ from their World War I-era business strategies?
7. What led to many members of the same family working as dial-painters?
8. What is the author's tone when ending Chapter 11 with the words, "After all-now it was bad for business" (79)?
9. In 1917, what was the reputation of radium in America?
10. Why did radium poisoning victims often need another operation after they had just undergone one?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How is the theme of hope depicted within the narrative despite the grim subject at the center of its story?
Essay Topic 2
Which person depicted within the book's events do you judge to be most culpable for the injuries and deaths suffered by the dial-painters in the early twentieth century? Prove your case using carefully-chosen concrete details from the book and other logical reasoning.
Essay Topic 3
How is the literary device of foreshadowing used to highlight coming events within the story of The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women?
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