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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. When Ella Cruse died from radium poisoning, how many weeks before had she been painting dials at Radium Dial?
2. What types of product were produced by the Waterbury Company in Connecticut?
3. How much money did the United States Radium Corporation eventually agree to give Mae Canfield in 1930?
4. What was the reaction of James Ewing when the five young women he breath-tested for radium tested positive for radioactivity?
5. When Grace Fryer visited Dr. Robert Humphries, what adjective did he use to describe Grace's vertebrae upon examining her x-rays?
Short Essay Questions
1. When Katherine Schaub slipped and fell on the steps up to her house in Newark, what was the doctor's diagnosis?
2. What were Raymond Berry's qualifications as a lawyer?
3. What results were yielded by the national radium conference held in December of 1928?
4. What was The List of the Doomed and who made it?
5. When Radium Dial issued a summary of Peg Looney's autopsy report to the local paper, what information that they furnished was then added to Peg Looney's obituary?
6. What were Quinta McDonald's two requests that were made before her death and what were the results of her requests?
7. What were the differences between the statute of limitations in federal court, versus the statute of limitations in the courts of New Jersey?
8. What prevented the Cruse family from pursuing their case against Radium Dial to hold them accountable in the death of Ella Cruse?
9. What was the significance of many of the dial-painters buying cars with their settlement monies?
10. What reasons does the narrator give for Grace Fryer's confusion when she heard that the United States Radium Corporation had rejected her offer to settle?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Examine the role of the luminous paint inventor, Sabin Von Sochocky, within the events depicted in The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women. How does the author use his role to highlight the themes within the overall narrative?
Essay Topic 2
What ultimate message is The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women sending about the theme of solidarity?
Essay Topic 3
Choose a symbolic object from the book, such as the camel-hair brush used to paint the dials, Grace Fryer's handkerchief that she holds to her infected jaw throughout her testimony at trial, or some other symbolic object and discuss its overall meaning and its connection to themes within the text.
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