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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. On what invention does Nikola Tesla claim he is working?
(a) A new electronic dynamo for AC power.
(b) A new type of electric generation tube.
(c) A new form of atomic energy.
(d) A new remote controlled boat.

2. On how many new inventions does Nikola Tesla say Teleforce is based?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

3. What type of weapon does Nikola envision in his conversations with Viereck?
(a) An apparatus that projects charged particles.
(b) A nuclear submarine.
(c) A guided missile.
(d) A death ray gun.

4. On what is Nikola Tesla working around the time of his 75th birthday?
(a) A more powerful coil.
(b) A new source of power.
(c) A stronger oscillator.
(d) A new lighting generation machine.

5. In what year does the Great Depression begin?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1929.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Nikola Tesla ignore the NRC mission of finding a way to detect U-Boats?

3. With whom does the New York Times suggest that Nikola Tesla will share the 1915 Nobel Prize in physics?

4. In what year does Nikola Tesla turn 80?

5. What influences does Nikola Tesla believe will compromise the religion of the human race in the year 2100?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 26, "Corks on Water," explain why J.P. Morgan will not invest in proposals Nikola Tesla makes after the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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

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

6. In Chapter 22, "The Guest of Honor," what are B.A. Behrend's motives in persuading the AIEE to award the Edison Medal to Nikola Tesla?

7. As described in Chapter 28, "Death and Transfiguration," why is Nikola Tesla caught in the middle of politics with regard to the role of Yugoslavia in World War II?

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

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

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

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