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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 was the final amount of the lump sum paid by the United States Radium Corporation to each litigant?
2. What response did Dr. Hoffman receive when he wrote to Arthur Roeder, asking him to help Grace Fryer "in a spirit of fairness and justice" (175)?
3. 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?
4. Marguerite Carlough died in the early morning hours of what holiday in 1925?
5. In what year did Catherine Wolfe and Tom Donohue marry?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. 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?
3. Why did Edna Hussman not realize how badly she had been injured after her fall on the street?
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 indecent proposal did Dr. Joseph Knef make to the executives at the United States Radium Corporation?
6. 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?
7. What were Quinta McDonald's two requests that were made before her death and what were the results of her requests?
8. When Katherine Schaub slipped and fell on the steps up to her house in Newark, what was the doctor's diagnosis?
9. How did Raymond Berry find out that Dr. Frederick Flinn held no medical license of any kind?
10. What results were yielded by the national radium conference held in December of 1928?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 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
What is The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women's message regarding corporate greed?
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