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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 Katherine Schaub when she first started working at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation?
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. On what day in 1917 did Congress vote America into joining World War I?
4. In early-twentith century popular culture, radium was dubbed as liquid what?
5. For what period of time did Swen Kjaer's national study of the radium dial-painting industry last?
Short Essay Questions
1. What actions comprised the technique known as lip-pointing and why was it done?
2. 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?
3. What is the author's tone when ending Chapter 11 with the words, "After all-now it was bad for business" (79)?
4. What led to many members of the same family working as dial-painters?
5. What were Arthur Roeder's criteria when he chose someone to conduct a study of the Orange plant and whom did he choose?
6. How lucrative was the job of dial-painting in relation to other options available to young women of the time?
7. The Radium Luminous Materials Corporation's radium-laden paint was used to create what type of objects?
8. Why did Hazel Kuser's family refuse to allow friends to see her body at her funeral?
9. What is the author's evidence for the claim that radium made an "all-pervasive entry into American life"?
10. What two leads did Katherine Wiley pursue after the death of Hazel Kuser?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Kate Moore utilize irony within the text? Discuss at least three uses of irony within the book and explore each instance's connection to larger themes contained within the narrative.
Essay Topic 2
How is the theme of deception portrayed in The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women? Examine Kate Moore's treatment of deception, truth, and the theme of appearance versus reality throughout the book.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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