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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. Where did Catherine Wolfe meet her future husband, Tom Wolfe?
2. What was Catherine Wolfe Donohue told when she asked the Radium Dial Company for the results of the medical tests they had recently performed on her?
3. Of everyone described within the narrative of the book, whose breath contained the most radiation upon being tested?
4. In the full-page Ottawa Daily Times ad placed by Radium Dial three days after the New Jersey settlements, on what did they place the blame for the New Jersey dial-painters' afflictions?
5. Why did George Weeks, the Cruse family's lawyer, request several postponements in Ella Cruse's case?
Short Essay Questions
1. What steps did Peg Looney's family take in order to ensure that the autopsy performed on Peg's body would yield honest results and how were their attempts thwarted?
2. What prevented the Cruse family from pursuing their case against Radium Dial to hold them accountable in the death of Ella Cruse?
3. What types of trouble did dial-painters experience when they tried to have children?
4. How did Dr. Frederick Flinn react to Raymond Berry's accusation that he held no medical license or degree?
5. What were Raymond Berry's qualifications as a lawyer?
6. What was the significance of Katherine Schaub's purchase of a typewriter with part of her settlement monies?
7. What were the reasons for attorneys' reluctance to take a dial-painter's case against the United States Radium Corporation?
8. When Katherine Schaub slipped and fell on the steps up to her house in Newark, what was the doctor's diagnosis?
9. What was the significance of many of the dial-painters buying cars with their settlement monies?
10. Why did Edna Hussman not realize how badly she had been injured after her fall on the street?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does the author use sensory details in order to paint a vivid portrait of the historical events she depicts within the book? Discuss at least two scenes that include extensive use of sensory details and pull quotes from these scenes to support your claim.
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
What is the author's treatment of gender within the events of the book? How does she get across to the reader the connection between the dial-painters' treatment by their employers and their status as women in America? Craft a specific and clear claim regarding the author's treatment of gender and use textual details to support your claim.
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