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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What magazine carries two of Nikola Tesla's designs: extracting electricity from seawater and plans for a geothermal steam plant?
(a) Discovery.
(b) Everyday Science & Mechanics.
(c) Popular Science.
(d) Scientific American.

2. In what year do Nikola Tesla's friends Hobson and Johnson die?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1938.

3. For what invention is the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics given?
(a) The invention of radio.
(b) The copper button lamp.
(c) The use of X-rays to determine the structure of crystals.
(d) The creation of man-made lightning.

4. In how many days does Nikola Tesla think the turbine can drive ocean liners across the Atlantic?
(a) 3 days.
(b) 5 days.
(c) 4 days.
(d) 6 days.

5. In what year does Nikola Tesla turn 80?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1938.

6. In what decade is Prohibition enacted?
(a) 1920s.
(b) 1900s.
(c) 1930s.
(d) 1910s.

7. In what year does Nikola Tesla become very feeble?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1945.

8. What hotel is Nikola Tesla told to vacate in part because of his birds?
(a) The Waldorf.
(b) The Park.
(c) The Regency.
(d) The St. Regis.

9. What Supreme Court decision about Nikola Tesla's invention eight months after his death vindicates him?
(a) He is credited with the invention of artificial lightning.
(b) He is credited with the invention of nuclear power.
(c) He is credited with the invention of radio.
(d) He is credited with the invention of submarines.

10. On what does Nikola Tesla say that civilized nations would spend more on than war?
(a) Agriculture.
(b) Politics.
(c) Education.
(d) Health.

11. Who tries to learn the secret of animosity between Nikola Tesla and professor Pupin?
(a) Katherine Johnson.
(b) Dragislav L. Petkovic.
(c) George Westinghouse.
(d) Scherff.

12. Who funds Nikola Tesla's big Long Island experiment?
(a) George Westinghouse.
(b) Mark Twain.
(c) Robert Underwood Johnson.
(d) J. Pierpont Morgan.

13. Who arranges a party for Nikola Tesla's 75th birthday in 1931?
(a) Scherff.
(b) Swezey.
(c) Robert Underwood Johnson.
(d) His secretaries.

14. Who asks Nikola Tesla to accept the Edison Medal of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers?
(a) B. A. Behrend.
(b) Thomas Edison.
(c) Robert Underwood Johnson.
(d) George Westinghouse.

15. Besides being an inventor, for what other role is Nikola Tesla known?
(a) Financier.
(b) Writer.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Publicist.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1906, what type of model does Nikola Tesla build?

2. In what year does Katherine Johnson die?

3. How much capital funded the incorporation of the Tesla Ozone Company?

4. What does Nikola Tesla need now to capitalize on his 1906 invention?

5. For what purpose does Nikola Tesla propose the use of radar?

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