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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year does Ernest Orlando Lawrence win a Nobel prize for the cyclotron, a precursor of which Nikola Tesla exhibited?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1936.

2. What does Nikola Tesla believe is the greatest benefit of robots?
(a) Service to the military.
(b) Service to traffic.
(c) Service to boats.
(d) Service to humanity.

3. 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.

4. In what city does Nikola Tesla find a job in 1881?
(a) Budapest.
(b) Vienna.
(c) Munich.
(d) Prague.

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?
(a) He publishes articles in magazines.
(b) He sends out letters to the scientists.
(c) He has a newspaper reporter write about them.
(d) He conducts lectures with demonstrations.

6. 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 asks for more research.
(d) The official tells him someone already approached the government.

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

8. How does George Scherff feel about Nikola Tesla?
(a) He detests him.
(b) He feels nothing for him.
(c) He feels sorry for him.
(d) He worships him.

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

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

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

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

13. What profession does Nikola Tesla's father expect him to follow?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Clergyman.
(d) Policeman.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Tesla coil?

2. Who helps to found the Tesla Society around 1956?

3. What does Nikola Tesla do to the oscillator?

4. What does Nikola Tesla demonstrate with thousands of high-frequency volts running through his body?

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

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