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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 newspaper was "arguably the most powerful newspaper in America at the time" (195) and helped to spread the word about the dial-painters' plight?
2. Who was NOT part of the group of five dial-painters who received settlements from the United States Radium Corporation?
3. What was the reaction of James Ewing when the five young women he breath-tested for radium tested positive for radioactivity?
4. To what hospital was Ella Cruse admitted when her pimple grew in size and caused her entire face to swell?
5. Having hit multiple dead ends in her fight against the United States Radium Corporation, Grace Fryer contacted the lawyer Raymond Berry in May of what year?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was particularly difficult about Peg Looney's stay in the company doctor's hospital prior to her death from radium poisoning?
2. What were the differences between the statute of limitations in federal court, versus the statute of limitations in the courts of New Jersey?
3. What types of trouble did dial-painters experience when they tried to have children?
4. What was The List of the Doomed and who made it?
5. 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?
6. What were the reasons for attorneys' reluctance to take a dial-painter's case against the United States Radium Corporation?
7. 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?
8. Who resigned from the United States Radium Corporation in July of 1926 and why?
9. What ray of hope emerged when a Russian doctor stepped forward to help with the dial-painters' care and what was the outcome?
10. How did Raymond Berry find out that Dr. Frederick Flinn held no medical license of any kind?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the author's message regarding justice within The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women?
Essay Topic 2
Examine Kate Moore's use of characterization methods to portray the lawyer Leonard Grossman. What effect do these characterization methods have on the book's inherent themes and messages?
Essay Topic 3
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.
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