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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. Part of the allure of the jobs available at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation was that the site of business was called a what, rather than a factory?

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?

3. What role did Josiah Stryker inhabit within the United States Radium Corporation?

4. Under state law in the early twentieth century in New Jersey, the Department of Labor had no authority to stop an industrial process even if it was what?

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

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

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

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

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

6. What came of the national study of the industrial use of radium launched by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in April of 1925?

7. How successful was the Radium Dial company in 1925?

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

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)?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the author's treatment of the climactic scene of the dial-painters' final trial and what techniques she uses in order to build suspense for the reader.

Essay Topic 2

What is the significance of the dentist Dr. Knef's false discovery that Mollie Maggia was positive for syphilis? How does this event connect to the narrative's overarching themes?

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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