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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are balloons ordered?
(a) To celebrate the completion of an experiment.
(b) To anchor the equipment.
(c) For the enjoyment of local children.
(d) To hoist stationary antennae into the air.

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

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

4. 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.

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

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

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

8. In the early 1900s, from what illness does Nikola Tesla suffer?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) Depression.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Amnesia.

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

10. What does Nikola Tesla invent that is used in Rahway, New Jersey?
(a) A new generator.
(b) A DC motor.
(c) A new light bulb.
(d) The Tesla arc lamp.

11. What major German invention in 1896 is most likely predated by Nikola Tesla's version?
(a) The radio.
(b) The vacuum tube.
(c) The fluorescent light bulb.
(d) The x-ray.

12. 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 have different hygiene.
(d) They solve problems differently.

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

14. Where does Charles Batchelor encourage Nikola Tesla to go?
(a) To Paris.
(b) To London.
(c) To America.
(d) To Munich.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the lamp that Nikola Tesla invents?

2. Where is Nikola Tesla when he watches his Colorado Springs experiment?

3. In what 1896 publication is there speculation about Nikola Tesla's status with women?

4. For whom does Nikola Tesla say he will build a villa in New York City?

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

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