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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens to horses when Nikola Tesla is running his Colorado Springs experiments?
(a) They return to the barn.
(b) They go berserk, feeling shocks through their metal shoes.
(c) They die.
(d) They starve.

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

4. For whom does Nikola Tesla say he will build a villa in New York City?
(a) Nellie Melba.
(b) Ann Morgan.
(c) Katherine Johnson.
(d) Marguerite Merington.

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

6. At what age does Nikola Tesla take passage on the ship Saturnia?
(a) 24.
(b) 29.
(c) 28.
(d) 26.

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

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

9. What event takes Nikola Tesla away from radio research in 1893?
(a) The Chicago World's Fair.
(b) A scientists' meeting in London.
(c) A bad radio experiment.
(d) The World Congress.

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

11. When does Nikola Tesla perform a major experiment in his Colorado Springs laboratory?
(a) July 3, 1899.
(b) September 1, 1899.
(c) August 5, 1899.
(d) June 27, 1899.

12. In what city does Nikola Tesla study after running out of funds for college?
(a) Prague.
(b) Graz.
(c) Vienna.
(d) Munich.

13. What does Nikola Tesla demonstrate with thousands of high-frequency volts running through his body?
(a) The light on Mars.
(b) A fluorescent light bulb.
(c) Moonlight.
(d) A working model of the incandescent sun.

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

15. In what 1896 publication is there speculation about Nikola Tesla's status with women?
(a) The Electrical Times.
(b) The Electrical Review.
(c) The New York Times.
(d) The Wall Street Journal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nikola Tesla send through neighboring buildings?

2. In what year does Nikola Tesla go to work for Thomas Edison's subsidiary in Paris?

3. What is Nikola Tesla's first two-way radio controlled object?

4. To what author is Nikola Tesla introduced while ill as a child?

5. With what device does Nikola Tesla achieve tensions of about one million volts?

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