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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 Catherine Wolfe Donohue told when she asked the Radium Dial Company for the results of the medical tests they had recently performed on her?

2. At what type of establishment did Grace Fryer work after she left her position as a dial-painter?

3. 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?

4. When Grace Fryer visited Dr. Robert Humphries, what adjective did he use to describe Grace's vertebrae upon examining her x-rays?

5. Who bought a typewriter with part of her settlement money in hopes of beginning a career as a writer?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were Quinta McDonald's two requests that were made before her death and what were the results of her requests?

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

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

4. How did the five dial-painters who had settled with the United States Radium Corporation try to help Mae Canfield with her own case?

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

6. What prevented the Cruse family from pursuing their case against Radium Dial to hold them accountable in the death of Ella Cruse?

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

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

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

10. 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?

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

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 3

What ultimate message is The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women sending about the theme of solidarity?

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