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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. What material did Rufus Reed use to construct a painting pen that was then given to the dial-painters as a suggested replacement for their brushes?

2. What was the main claim of the full-page ad in the Ottawa Daily Times placed by Radium Dial three days after the New Jersey settlements?

3. In what year did Catherine Wolfe and Tom Donohue marry?

4. When Ella Cruse died from radium poisoning, how many weeks before had she been painting dials at Radium Dial?

5. Who gave her father $2,000 to pay off his mortgage once she had received her settlement?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Raymond Berry find out that Dr. Frederick Flinn held no medical license of any kind?

2. When Katherine Schaub slipped and fell on the steps up to her house in Newark, what was the doctor's diagnosis?

3. What were Raymond Berry's qualifications as a lawyer?

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. 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?

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

7. What was the significance of Sabin Von Sochocky's warning to Grace Fryer in the dial-painting studio?

8. What was the significance of many of the dial-painters buying cars with their settlement monies?

9. What was particularly difficult about Peg Looney's stay in the company doctor's hospital prior to her death from radium poisoning?

10. What types of trouble did dial-painters experience when they tried to have children?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

What is the significance of the dentist Dr. Knef's false discovery that Mollie Maggia was positive for syphilis? How does this event connect to the narrative's overarching themes?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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