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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. In what year did Catherine Wolfe and Tom Donohue marry?

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

4. Upon what condition did the United States Radium Corporation base its settlement pay-out to Mae Canfield?

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 indecent proposal did Dr. Joseph Knef make to the executives at the United States Radium Corporation?

2. How did Raymond Berry find out that Dr. Frederick Flinn held no medical license of any kind?

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

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

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

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

7. How did Dr. Frederick Flinn react to Raymond Berry's accusation that he held no medical license or degree?

8. Once the United States Radium Corporation had paid each of the five litigants $10,000 and had promised to pay all of their future medical bills, what conditions did the company insist upon?

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 Katherine Schaub's purchase of a typewriter with part of her settlement monies?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the author's decision to include a variety of photographs within the text. What purpose did she have in mind when including images of the dial-painters and other subjects? Back up your strong, specific claim about the author's use of photographs with concrete details from the images she includes in the book.

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

How is the theme of deception portrayed in The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women? Examine Kate Moore's treatment of deception, truth, and the theme of appearance versus reality throughout the book.

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