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

2. In what year does the Luftwaffe bomb Belgrade?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1942.

3. What is the location of the tower that Nikola Tesla builds for his experiment on Long Island?
(a) Oyster Point.
(b) The Hamptons.
(c) Shoreham.
(d) Wardenclyffe.

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

5. Who uses Nikola Tesla's 1900 radio patent to signal the letter "S" across the Atlantic ocean?
(a) Westinghouse.
(b) Marconi.
(c) Edison.
(d) Scherff.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Nikola Tesla never sure what day to celebrate for his birthday?

2. What is Charles Hausler's job for Nikola Tesla?

3. Where does Nikola Tesla maintain a laboratory for turbine work?

4. How old is writer Kenneth M. Swezey when he arrives in New York City?

5. Who arranges a party for Nikola Tesla's 75th birthday in 1931?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 27, "Cosmic Communion," for what purpose does Nikola Tesla use his birthday parties during his eightieth decade?

2. Why is Nikola Tesla constantly passed over for fame and fortune for his inventions, especially radio?

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

4. What closure does Nikola get as he learns about medical uses for his oscillator inventions?

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

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

7. In Chapter 17, "The Great Radio Controversy," what court rules that Nikola Tesla is the inventor of radio, rather than William Marconi?

8. In Chapter 19, "The Nobel Affair," for what two inventions does Nikola Tesla think he can collaborate with John Hays Hammond, Jr., and why?

9. What do Nikola and Ivan Mestrovic have in common, and how do they leverage those commonalities?

10. Describe why Nikola, now in his fifties, aggrandizes his theories and projects to others.

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