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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what city does Nikola Tesla find a job in 1881?
(a) Budapest.
(b) Prague.
(c) Vienna.
(d) Munich.

2. What does Nikola Tesla believe is the greatest benefit of robots?
(a) Service to humanity.
(b) Service to traffic.
(c) Service to boats.
(d) Service to the military.

3. How many volts are Nikola Tesla's coils producing when he asks Leonard Curtis to find him a new laboratory?
(a) 3,500.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 4,000,000.
(d) 4,500,000.

4. Where is the Palm Room?
(a) In the Hyatt Regency Hotel.
(b) In the St. Regis Hotel.
(c) In the Plaza Hotel.
(d) In the Waldorf Astoria Hotel.

5. For what type of transmission is Nikola Tesla's research a precursor in around 1895?
(a) Electromechanical.
(b) Convection.
(c) Radio wave.
(d) Microwave.

6. What is the name of the lamp that Nikola Tesla invents?
(a) Zirconia-button lamp.
(b) Carbon-button lamp.
(c) Diamond-button lamp.
(d) Ruby-button lamp.

7. To what author is Nikola Tesla introduced while ill as a child?
(a) Herman Melville.
(b) Robert Louis Stevenson.
(c) Robert Browning.
(d) Mark Twain.

8. How tall is Nikola Tesla in the year 1893?
(a) Six feet four inches.
(b) Five feet two inches.
(c) Six feet.
(d) Six feet six inches.

9. In Chapter 10, "An Error of Judgment," to what does Nikola Tesla expose his head frequently?
(a) Sun.
(b) Atoms.
(c) Radiation.
(d) Radio waves.

10. What happens to Nikola Tesla when he steps onto his experimental platform in his laboratory?
(a) He loses consciousness.
(b) He is burned.
(c) He shudders.
(d) He is fine.

11. What is Nikola Tesla doing in Europe when he conceives the idea that man could produce electric storms?
(a) Visiting his mother's grave.
(b) Roaming in his native mountains.
(c) Doing research in Budapest.
(d) Touring Zagreb.

12. What science is always at the forefront of Nikola Tesla's work?
(a) Physics.
(b) Thermodynamics.
(c) Nuclear fission.
(d) Electricity.

13. How does George Scherff feel about Nikola Tesla?
(a) He worships him.
(b) He feels sorry for him.
(c) He feels nothing for him.
(d) He detests him.

14. What trait is suspected by some about Nikola Tesla during the Gilded Age?
(a) He is passive aggressive.
(b) He is bipolar.
(c) He is a virgin.
(d) He is a homosexual.

15. For what does Nikola offer a plan to redesign for Edison?
(a) Electrical systems for ships.
(b) The electric light bulb.
(c) His direct current laboratory.
(d) His dynamos.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Tesla coil?

2. What happens when Nikola Tesla visits an official in Washington to offer a robotic invention to the government?

3. In the early 1900s, from what illness does Nikola Tesla suffer?

4. What does Thomas Edison do to try to quash the acquisition of Nikola Tesla's invention?

5. In what year does Ernest Orlando Lawrence win a Nobel prize for the cyclotron, a precursor of which Nikola Tesla exhibited?

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