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

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

3. For what experiment does Nikola Tesla solicit funding in New York in 1900?
(a) Telegraphic communication to any point on the globe.
(b) A lightning generator.
(c) A new oscillator.
(d) A new carbon button lamp.

4. In what year does Nikola Tesla finally sue Marconi?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1914.

5. Where does Nikola Tesla spend time feeding pigeons?
(a) Union Square Park.
(b) Bryant Park.
(c) Central Park.
(d) Riverside Drive Park.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does the Luftwaffe bomb Belgrade?

2. In what year is Nikola Tesla summoned to court for failure to pay his takes in New York City?

3. After J. Pierpont Morgan dies in 1913, from whom does Nikola Tesla try to get investment funding?

4. In what year does the Great Depression begin?

5. What do scientists and engineers worldwide do for Nikola Tesla's 75th birthday?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter 15, "Magnificent and Doomed," what trickery does Nikola Tesla use in pictures in a published article to give the impression that he is impervious to the lighting generated at his Colorado Springs laboratory?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. In Chapter 16,"Ridiculed, Condemned, Combated," what project is responsible for Nikola Tesla getting little sleep?

10. What mistake does Nikola make when proposing his process for degassifying copper to the American Smelting and Refining Company?

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