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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. Though a normal blood count should be 100%, Marguerite Carlough's blood eventually reached what percentage prior to her death?

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. Attorneys were reluctant to take Grace Fryer's case due to the United States Radium Corporation's status as all but which of the following?

4. What is a sarcoma?

5. When Edna Hussman stumbled on the street and her husband helped her to walk to the hospital, what was the doctor's diagnosis?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the differences between the statute of limitations in federal court, versus the statute of limitations in the courts of New Jersey?

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

3. 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?

4. 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?

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

6. Why did Edna Hussman not realize how badly she had been injured after her fall on the street?

7. 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?

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

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

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 Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women's message regarding corporate greed?

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

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?

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