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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Nikola Tesla's vacuum tube unsuitable for laboratory research?
(a) It is difficult to adjust.
(b) It is too expensive.
(c) It is too large.
(d) It is too small.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. In what subject does Nikola Tesla excel in high school?
(a) Social studies.
(b) Art.
(c) Math.
(d) Science.

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

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

11. What happens to the electric company generator when Nikola Tesla runs his experiment?
(a) It discharges and quits.
(b) It restores the generator to the line.
(c) Nothing.
(d) It knocks the generator off line and makes it burn.

12. How does Nikola Tesla feel when he sees his experiment in progress?
(a) Blissful.
(b) Nervous.
(c) Excited.
(d) Scared.

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Tesla coil?

2. How tall is Nikola Tesla in the year 1893?

3. For what does Nikola offer a plan to redesign for Edison?

4. What happens to horses when Nikola Tesla is running his Colorado Springs experiments?

5. What event takes Nikola Tesla away from radio research in 1893?

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