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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Nikola Tesla wish to reject the Edison Medal of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers?
(a) He doesn't have a new invention to justify the award.
(b) It opens old wounds of his wars with Edison.
(c) It doesn't bring him funding.
(d) He doesn't need the publicity.

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

3. What is being manufactured at Wardenclyffe?
(a) Copper button lamps.
(b) Radios.
(c) Medical coils.
(d) Lightning generators.

4. In what year does Nikola Tesla file a patent to describe the supercooling of conductors to appreciably lower resistance?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1902.

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

6. After J. Pierpont Morgan dies in 1913, from whom does Nikola Tesla try to get investment funding?
(a) J. P. Morgan.
(b) Robert Underwood Johnson.
(c) John Hays Hammond, Jr.
(d) Scherff.

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

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

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

10. To where does Nikola Tesla begin to write letters at age fifty?
(a) Magazines.
(b) Television.
(c) Radio.
(d) Newspapers.

11. On what does Nikola Tesla say that civilized nations would spend more on than war?
(a) Agriculture.
(b) Politics.
(c) Health.
(d) Education.

12. In what year does Katherine Johnson die?
(a) 1928.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1930.

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

14. What influences does Nikola Tesla believe will compromise the religion of the human race in the year 2100?
(a) The essences of Buddhism and Christianity.
(b) The essences of Buddhism and Judaism.
(c) The essences of Buddhism and Atheism.
(d) The essences of Christianity and Judaism.

15. What type of weapon does Nikola envision in his conversations with Viereck?
(a) A guided missile.
(b) A death ray gun.
(c) An apparatus that projects charged particles.
(d) A nuclear submarine.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Nikola Tesla planning to use the Tesla turbine engine?

2. In what year does Nikola Tesla finally sue Marconi?

3. What Supreme Court decision about Nikola Tesla's invention eight months after his death vindicates him?

4. Despite the fact that Nikola Tesla inspires the science of radar, in what year is Robert A. Watson-Watt officially credited with the invention?

5. In 1927, who tries to help Nikola Tesla with the promotion of a scientific concept?

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