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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. Whose family filed suit against Radium Dial the day after Radium Dial ran its full-page ad in the Ottawa Daily Times?
2. The Ottawa Daily Times reported at the time of the New Jersey settlements against the United States Radium Corporation that the first manifestation of radium poisoning was decay of what?
3. What is a sarcoma?
4. Of everyone described within the narrative of the book, whose breath contained the most radiation upon being tested?
5. Due to radium poisoning, Edna Hussman's legs eventually took on what condition?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the significance of Katherine Schaub's purchase of a typewriter with part of her settlement monies?
2. What were Raymond Berry's qualifications as a lawyer?
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 Quinta McDonald's two requests that were made before her death and what were the results of her requests?
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. What was the significance of many of the dial-painters buying cars with their settlement monies?
9. 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?
10. What was the significance of Sabin Von Sochocky's warning to Grace Fryer in the dial-painting studio?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Choose a symbolic object from the book, such as the camel-hair brush used to paint the dials, Grace Fryer's handkerchief that she holds to her infected jaw throughout her testimony at trial, or some other symbolic object and discuss its overall meaning and its connection to themes within the text.
Essay Topic 3
What is the author's message regarding justice within The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women?
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