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Margaret Cheney
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Margaret Cheney
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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nikola Tesla send through neighboring buildings?
(a) Water.
(b) Vibrations.
(c) Radiation.
(d) Electricity.

2. What does Nikola Tesla believe can be produced on Earth with an oscillator?
(a) Remote electricity.
(b) Nuclear power.
(c) Stationary pulses.
(d) Stationary waves.

3. What is Nikola Tesla doing in Europe when he conceives the idea that man could produce electric storms?
(a) Touring Zagreb.
(b) Doing research in Budapest.
(c) Roaming in his native mountains.
(d) Visiting his mother's grave.

4. What trait is suspected by some about Nikola Tesla during the Gilded Age?
(a) He is a homosexual.
(b) He is passive aggressive.
(c) He is a virgin.
(d) He is bipolar.

5. In Chapter 13, "Hurler of Lightning," to where does Nikola Tesla move in 1899?
(a) Boise.
(b) Phoenix.
(c) Denver.
(d) Colorado Springs.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city does Nikola Tesla give a lecture to the Institution of Electrical Engineers?

2. How many volts are Nikola Tesla's coils producing when he asks Leonard Curtis to find him a new laboratory?

3. What does Thomas Edison do to try to quash the acquisition of Nikola Tesla's invention?

4. For whom does Nikola Tesla say he will build a villa in New York City?

5. Why are balloons ordered?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 5, "The War of the Currents Begins," why is Nikola Tesla depressed at age thirty?

2. What potential modern applications does author Margaret Cheney describe for Nikola Tesla's invention of a peculiar and sensitive vacuum tube?

3. Why does Nikola Tesla become a regular patron at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City in Chapter 8, "High Society"?

4. In Chapter 4, "At the Court of Mr. Edison," describe the personality differences between Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla.

5. In Chapter 6, "Order of the Flaming Sword," what practical applications do Nikola Tesla's inventions have?

6. In Chapter 12, "Robots," why does Nikola Tesla have challenges moving his inventions from his laboratory into working prototypes?

7. In Chapter 7, "Radio," why does Nikola Tesla feel the need to go home?

8. How does Nikola out in Colorado keep Scherff motivated while working at the laboratory back in New York?

9. In Chapter 11, "To Mars," what patents does Nikola file in November, 1897, and what application do they potentially support?

10. What are the six fundamental principles of modern radio, and where does Nikola Tesla demonstrate them in 1893?

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