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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. When The United States Radium Corporation settled its first lawsuits filed by dial-painters, how many former workers were paid by the company?

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

3. When Catherine Wolfe Donohue was too ill to continue as a dial-painter at Radium Dial, what job was she given instead?

4. In 1926, a law was passed that formally termed radium necrosis as what type of disease?

5. Of everyone described within the narrative of the book, whose breath contained the most radiation upon being tested?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How is the theme of hope depicted within the narrative despite the grim subject at the center of its story?

Essay Topic 3

Examine how Kate Moore's writing of The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women displays characteristics of the Postmodern literary movement and what effect the use of that style has on the narrative.

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