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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many accidents does Nikola Tesla say he has in a year?
(a) Six.
(b) Four.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

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

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

5. What happens when Nikola Tesla visits an official in Washington to offer a robotic invention to the government?
(a) The official asks for more research.
(b) The official tells him someone already approached the government.
(c) The official accepts the research.
(d) The official laughs at Nikola Tesla.

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

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

8. What does Nikola Tesla ask Westinghouse to do with their royalties agreement?
(a) Sell it.
(b) Tear it up.
(c) Double the value.
(d) Split it.

9. In the year 1888, who buys Nikola Tesla's patents to use in his electric company?
(a) Dr. B.A. Behrend.
(b) Thomas Edison.
(c) George Westinghouse.
(d) Mark Twain.

10. What happens to Nikola Tesla's laboratory in 1895?
(a) It is robbed.
(b) It is raided by police.
(c) It is made larger.
(d) It catches fire.

11. What personality difference jeopardizes the relationship between Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla?
(a) They have different hygiene.
(b) They solve problems differently.
(c) They have different schedules.
(d) They have different religious beliefs.

12. What does Nikola Tesla send through neighboring buildings?
(a) Radiation.
(b) Electricity.
(c) Vibrations.
(d) Water.

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

14. In what field does Nikola Tesla pioneer inventions while the Nobel Prize goes to three others?
(a) Wireless technology.
(b) The transistor.
(c) Radar.
(d) The radio.

15. In what country is Nikola Tesla born?
(a) Hungary.
(b) Romania.
(c) Croatia.
(d) Serbia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 10, "An Error of Judgment," to what does Nikola Tesla expose his head frequently?

3. Who helps to found the Tesla Society around 1956?

4. What system of Nikola Tesla's invention allows alternating current to be delivered?

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

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