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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the lamp that Nikola Tesla invents?
(a) Ruby-button lamp.
(b) Diamond-button lamp.
(c) Zirconia-button lamp.
(d) Carbon-button lamp.

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

3. What science is always at the forefront of Nikola Tesla's work?
(a) Electricity.
(b) Nuclear fission.
(c) Thermodynamics.
(d) Physics.

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

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

6. Whom does Nikola Tesla invite to a celebration at the Waldorf in 1898?
(a) The Edisons.
(b) Marguerite.
(c) The Johnsons.
(d) The Westinghouses.

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

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

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

10. 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.

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

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

13. In what city does Nikola Tesla give a lecture to the Institution of Electrical Engineers?
(a) London.
(b) Chicago.
(c) New York.
(d) Toronto.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What accomplishment occurs at Niagara Falls in 1895?

2. How does George Scherff feel about Nikola Tesla?

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

4. With what planet does Nikola Tesla say communication can be made?

5. In Chapter 6, "Order of the Flaming Sword," how does Nikola Tesla share his inventions of electricity in a vacuum tube with other scientists?

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