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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. 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?
3. Who looked pointedly at Grace Fryer on one instance within the studio and warned her not to lip-point, a comment that would later take on great significance in court?
4. Grace Fryer came from a family of how many children?
5. By whom was Edna Hussman employed when she was examined by Dr. Frederick Flinn?
Short Essay Questions
1. What came of the national study of the industrial use of radium launched by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in April of 1925?
2. What were Arthur Roeder's criteria when he chose someone to conduct a study of the Orange plant and whom did he choose?
3. 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?
4. What actions comprised the technique known as lip-pointing and why was it done?
5. What two leads did Katherine Wiley pursue after the death of Hazel Kuser?
6. What were the findings of the first-ever autopsy on a dial-painter?
7. What is the author's tone when ending Chapter 11 with the words, "After all-now it was bad for business" (79)?
8. How lucrative was the job of dial-painting in relation to other options available to young women of the time?
9. 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?
10. 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?
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 hope depicted within the narrative despite the grim subject at the center of its story?
Essay Topic 3
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.
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