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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. How many surgeries did Grace Fryer ultimately have performed on her jaw?

2. How did Raymond Berry eventually get Cecil K. Drinker to testify in court?

3. Who said, "It is not for myself I care. I am thinking more of the hundreds of girls to whom this [settlement] may serve as an example" (232)?

4. Due to radium poisoning, Edna Hussman's legs eventually took on what condition?

5. In what discipline did Dr. Frederick Flinn hold a Doctorate degree?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What results were yielded by the national radium conference held in December of 1928?

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

4. What was The List of the Doomed and who made it?

5. What were Raymond Berry's qualifications as a lawyer?

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

8. What ray of hope emerged when a Russian doctor stepped forward to help with the dial-painters' care and what was the outcome?

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 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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