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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Nikola Tesla sometimes feel because he has not married?
(a) Elusive.
(b) Lonely.
(c) Frustrated.
(d) Happy.

3. To what group does Nikola Tesla give a lecture about mechanical electrical oscillators on August 25, 1893?
(a) The Electrical Congress.
(b) The United States Congress.
(c) The International Congress.
(d) The engineers at the Chicago World's Fair.

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

5. In what year does Nikola Tesla describe in detail the principles of radio broadcasting?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1891.
(d) 1895.

6. When the vibration of heavy current surges through the primary coil, what phenomenon is the result?
(a) Thunder.
(b) Earthquake.
(c) Windstorm.
(d) Lightning.

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

8. What does Nikola Tesla do to the oscillator?
(a) Smashes it.
(b) Turns it off.
(c) Turns it up.
(d) Oils it.

9. At what game does Nikola Tesla become skilled?
(a) Horseshoes.
(b) Billiards.
(c) Polo.
(d) Chess.

10. What system of Nikola Tesla's invention allows alternating current to be delivered?
(a) DC system.
(b) Polyphase system.
(c) Voltage system.
(d) Fluorescent bulb system.

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

12. In what year does the Tesla Electric Company open?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1888.
(d) 1887.

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

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

15. In what year does Nikola Tesla go to work for Thomas Edison's subsidiary in Paris?
(a) 1880.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1883.
(d) 1881.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nikola Tesla ask Westinghouse to do with their royalties agreement?

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

3. Whom does Nikola Tesla invite to a celebration at the Waldorf in 1898?

4. What does Nikola Tesla invent that is used in Rahway, New Jersey?

5. What happens to the electric company generator when Nikola Tesla runs his experiment?

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