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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who helps to found the Tesla Society around 1956?
(a) Gano Dunn.
(b) Leland Anderson.
(c) D. McFarlan Moore.
(d) Louis Cohen.

2. What does Nikola Tesla believe can be produced on Earth with an oscillator?
(a) Nuclear power.
(b) Remote electricity.
(c) Stationary waves.
(d) Stationary pulses.

3. From what financier does Nikola Tesla choose NOT to accept funds?
(a) George Westinghouse.
(b) J. Pierpont Morgan.
(c) Robert Underwood Johnson.
(d) Thomas Edison.

4. What is the Tesla coil?
(a) A vacuum tube.
(b) An electromagnetic force.
(c) A high frequency transmitter.
(d) A radio wave.

5. What does Thomas Edison do to try to quash the acquisition of Nikola Tesla's invention?
(a) He meets with George Westinghouse.
(b) He buys out Nikola Tesla.
(c) He offers Tesla stock in his company.
(d) He conducts a smear campaign against Westinghouse and alternating current.

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

7. Why does Nikola Tesla choose room 207 at the Alta Vista Hotel?
(a) It has a window.
(b) It is the only room available.
(c) The number 207 reminds him of his mother.
(d) The number 207 is divisible by three and one flight up.

8. With what planet does Nikola Tesla say communication can be made?
(a) Venus.
(b) Mars.
(c) Jupiter.
(d) Uranus.

9. What reward does Thomas Edison offer Nikola Tesla for completing the work with the dynamo?
(a) Vacation days.
(b) Stock in Thomas Edison's company.
(c) A $50,000 bonus.
(d) A $10/week raise.

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

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

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

13. What type of engine does Nikola Tesla invent in Chapter 12, "Robots"?
(a) A vacuum engine.
(b) A steam driven engine.
(c) A solar engine.
(d) A water engine.

14. Whom does Nikola Tesla invite to his laboratory at midnight to view his experiments?
(a) Robert Underwood Johnson.
(b) Mark Twain.
(c) William K. Vanderbuilt.
(d) Marguerite Merrington.

15. Where does Charles Batchelor encourage Nikola Tesla to go?
(a) To Munich.
(b) To London.
(c) To America.
(d) To Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. What major German invention in 1896 is most likely predated by Nikola Tesla's version?

2. In what subject does Nikola Tesla excel in high school?

3. What profession does Nikola Tesla's father expect him to follow?

4. When does Nikola Tesla perform a major experiment in his Colorado Springs laboratory?

5. When the vibration of heavy current surges through the primary coil, what phenomenon is the result?

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