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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. How old was Hazel Kuzer when she died of radium poisoning?
2. The paper dials painted by Radium Luminous Materials Corporation workers had black backgrounds and numerals of what color?
3. In 1923, what company acted as Radium Dial's main client, due to its 60% share of the U.S. alarm market?
4. 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?
5. When Radium Dial conducted an internal investigation of its workers' health, how many of the dial-painters were told of their results?
Short Essay Questions
1. What two leads did Katherine Wiley pursue after the death of Hazel Kuser?
2. 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?
3. The Radium Luminous Materials Corporation's radium-laden paint was used to create what type of objects?
4. What came of the national study of the industrial use of radium launched by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in April of 1925?
5. What is the author's evidence for the claim that radium made an "all-pervasive entry into American life"?
6. 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?
7. 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?
8. What were the findings of the first-ever autopsy on a dial-painter?
9. 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?
10. What were Arthur Roeder's criteria when he chose someone to conduct a study of the Orange plant and whom did he choose?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the author's treatment of gender within the events of the book? How does she get across to the reader the connection between the dial-painters' treatment by their employers and their status as women in America? Craft a specific and clear claim regarding the author's treatment of gender and use textual details to support your claim.
Essay Topic 2
How does the author's use of the omniscient third person point of view serve her purposes over the course of the book? Discuss how Kate Moore's choice of point of view helps to advance her treatment of at least three particular themes within the text.
Essay Topic 3
What ultimate message is The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women sending about the theme of solidarity?
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