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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. Who was NOT part of the group of five dial-painters who received settlements from the United States Radium Corporation?

2. In what city was St. Columba Church located?

3. Due to radium poisoning, Edna Hussman's legs eventually took on what condition?

4. The list created by Katherine Schaub and Harrison Martland came to be known by what name?

5. When Catherine Wolfe Donohue was too ill to continue as a dial-painter at Radium Dial, what job was she given instead?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was The List of the Doomed and who made it?

2. Why did Edna Hussman not realize how badly she had been injured after her fall on the street?

3. 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?

4. What were the differences between the statute of limitations in federal court, versus the statute of limitations in the courts of New Jersey?

5. Once the United States Radium Corporation had paid each of the five litigants $10,000 and had promised to pay all of their future medical bills, what conditions did the company insist upon?

6. What ray of hope emerged when a Russian doctor stepped forward to help with the dial-painters' care and what was the outcome?

7. What was the significance of Katherine Schaub's purchase of a typewriter with part of her settlement monies?

8. Who resigned from the United States Radium Corporation in July of 1926 and why?

9. 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?

10. What were the reasons for attorneys' reluctance to take a dial-painter's case against the United States Radium Corporation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which person depicted within the book's events do you judge to be most culpable for the injuries and deaths suffered by the dial-painters in the early twentieth century? Prove your case using carefully-chosen concrete details from the book and other logical reasoning.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

How is the theme of hope depicted within the narrative despite the grim subject at the center of its story?

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