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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1915, who builds a radio station for the U.S. Naval Radio Service?
(a) A British firm.
(b) A German firm.
(c) A French firm.
(d) A Serbian firm.

2. Where is the National Research Council formed?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Boston.
(c) Washington, DC.
(d) New York City.

3. Where does Nikola Tesla go to create new inventions right after the Edison Medal event?
(a) London.
(b) St. Louis.
(c) Chicago.
(d) New Jersey.

4. For what is Nikola Tesla singled out due to the role of Yugoslavia in the upcoming war?
(a) A political friend of Yugoslavia.
(b) An ideological pawn between East and West.
(c) A scientific advisor.
(d) An ambassador to Croatia.

5. Who arrives in America from Europe and becomes a minister of the new Tito government?
(a) Nikola Tesla's best friend.
(b) Nikola Tesla's cousin.
(c) Nikola Tesla's sister.
(d) Nikola Tesla's nephew.

6. For what publication does Nikola Tesla write about women's superiority?
(a) The New Yorker.
(b) Fortune.
(c) The Harvard Review.
(d) Colliers.

7. In what year is the Wardenclyffe tower blown up?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1916.

8. Who tries to learn the secret of animosity between Nikola Tesla and professor Pupin?
(a) Dragislav L. Petkovic.
(b) Katherine Johnson.
(c) George Westinghouse.
(d) Scherff.

9. What does Nikola Tesla believe about life on other planets?
(a) It may exist on Jupiter.
(b) It does not exist on Venus.
(c) It is a possibility.
(d) It is a certitude.

10. In what year does the U.S. Supreme Court strike down the Marconi Company patents for the invention of radio?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1943.

11. On what invention does Nikola Tesla claim he is working?
(a) A new electronic dynamo for AC power.
(b) A new type of electric generation tube.
(c) A new form of atomic energy.
(d) A new remote controlled boat.

12. What does Nikola Tesla need now to capitalize on his 1906 invention?
(a) Capital.
(b) A business manager.
(c) Inventory.
(d) A manufacturing plant.

13. What are the descendants of the Tesla flivver airplane?
(a) Bombers.
(b) Vertical Takeoff and Landing craft.
(c) Gliders.
(d) Helicopters.

14. In what year does Nikola Tesla become very feeble?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1945.

15. What magazine carries two of Nikola Tesla's designs: extracting electricity from seawater and plans for a geothermal steam plant?
(a) Everyday Science & Mechanics.
(b) Popular Science.
(c) Scientific American.
(d) Discovery.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is writer Kenneth M. Swezey when he arrives in New York City?

2. What does Nikola Tesla do during the Edison Medal presentation ceremony?

3. For what invention is the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics given?

4. To which fellow New Yorker does Nikola Tesla pay back old debts?

5. For what purpose does Nikola Tesla propose the use of radar?

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