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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 influences does Nikola Tesla believe will compromise the religion of the human race in the year 2100?
(a) The essences of Buddhism and Christianity.
(b) The essences of Christianity and Judaism.
(c) The essences of Buddhism and Judaism.
(d) The essences of Buddhism and Atheism.

2. About what do Nikola Tesla and John Hays Hammond Jr. correspond?
(a) Improving the copper button lamp.
(b) Earning money through military applications for robotry.
(c) Rebuilding the tower in Colorado Springs.
(d) Improving the coil motor.

3. After Mark Twain and J. Pierpont Morgan die, what happens to Nikola Tesla's behavior?
(a) It becomes stranger.
(b) It becomes erratic.
(c) It becomes depressing.
(d) It becomes more upbeat.

4. What is George Sylvester Viereck's vocation?
(a) A poet.
(b) A politician.
(c) An engineer.
(d) A scientist.

5. In what year is Yugoslavia formed?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1920.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Supreme Court decision about Nikola Tesla's invention eight months after his death vindicates him?

2. In what year does Nikola Tesla become very feeble?

3. In how many days does Nikola Tesla think the turbine can drive ocean liners across the Atlantic?

4. What professor finds Nikola Tesla's ideas "thermodynamically sound"?

5. In what year is the Wardenclyffe tower blown up?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is different about Nikola's flivver airplane, or flying stove, and other existing aircraft?

2. After 1915, why does Nikola work for two companies as described in Chapter 20, "Flying Stove"?

3. What influence does Nikola have on some Canadians with respect to wireless electric power generation?

4. In the face of what is termed the 1903 "Rich Man's Panic," how does Scherff advise Nikola Tesla to leverage one of his inventions to raise funds?

5. Why does Nikola try not to attend the Edison Medal ceremony to receive his award?

6. Why does Nikola care for pigeons in Chapter 23, "Pigeons"?

7. In Chapter 25, "The Birthday Parties," how does Kenneth Swezey make Nikola's seventy-fifth birthday memorable?

8. What use does Nikola describe for radar in Chapter 21, "Radar"?

9. Why is there conflicting information about Nikola Tesla's invention of a "Chinese Wall" in the U.S. of Teleforce?

10. What role does the National Research Council have in preventing Nikola from getting his ideas listened to?

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