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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's 81st birthday bring him?
(a) More funding for research.
(b) A new secretary.
(c) More international recognition.
(d) A new laboratory.

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

3. Who writes letters to Nikola Tesla from around the country, trying to encourage him about better health?
(a) George Westinghouse.
(b) Scherff.
(c) Lt. Hobson.
(d) Katherine Johnson.

4. Why does Nikola Tesla wish to reject the Edison Medal of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers?
(a) It doesn't bring him funding.
(b) He doesn't need the publicity.
(c) He doesn't have a new invention to justify the award.
(d) It opens old wounds of his wars with Edison.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year do Nikola Tesla's friends Hobson and Johnson die?

3. What is the location of the tower that Nikola Tesla builds for his experiment on Long Island?

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

5. What hotel is Nikola Tesla told to vacate in part because of his birds?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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