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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 traffic.
(b) Service to humanity.
(c) Service to boats.
(d) Service to the military.

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

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

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

5. In Chapter 13, what is the invention that most fascinates Nikola Tesla followers?
(a) The transmitter.
(b) The remote controlled ship.
(c) The Copper Button Lamp.
(d) The valve.

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

7. How does Thomas Edison use electrocution as a political weapon?
(a) He sues Nikola Tesla for patent infringement.
(b) He electrocutes birds.
(c) He publishes a newspaper article.
(d) He refers publicly to an electrocuted prisoner as being "Westinghoused."

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

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

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

11. 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.

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

13. What does a group of men offer Tesla the opportunity to do?
(a) Form his own company.
(b) Travel in Europe.
(c) Invest in other businesses.
(d) Buy Thomas Edison's company.

14. With what device does Nikola Tesla achieve tensions of about one million volts?
(a) Conical coil.
(b) Linear coil.
(c) Cylindrical coil.
(d) Spherical coil.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After World War II, much of Nikola Tesla's library materials are shipped where?

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

4. What personality difference jeopardizes the relationship between Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla?

5. Why is Nikola Tesla's vacuum tube unsuitable for laboratory research?

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