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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What company refuses to entertain any of Nikola Tesla's proposals in 1920?
(a) Edison Electric Company.
(b) RCA.
(c) The Westinghouse Company.
(d) General Electric Company.

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

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

4. What does Nikola Tesla do during the Edison Medal presentation ceremony?
(a) Dance.
(b) Laugh.
(c) Disappear.
(d) Collapse.

5. Who asks Nikola Tesla to accept the Edison Medal of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers?
(a) Robert Underwood Johnson.
(b) Thomas Edison.
(c) George Westinghouse.
(d) B. A. Behrend.

6. Why is Nikola Tesla never sure what day to celebrate for his birthday?
(a) He cannot remember his birthday.
(b) He isn't told his birthday.
(c) He has no birth certificate.
(d) He is born at midnight.

7. Whom does Lt. Hobson try to interest in robotry as a way to raise funds for Nikola Tesla?
(a) The Army.
(b) The Navy.
(c) The Coast Guard.
(d) The Marines.

8. How much capital funded the incorporation of the Tesla Ozone Company?
(a) $50,000.
(b) $40,000.
(c) $35,000.
(d) $42,500.

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

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

11. After Mark Twain and J. Pierpont Morgan die, what happens to Nikola Tesla's behavior?
(a) It becomes erratic.
(b) It becomes more upbeat.
(c) It becomes depressing.
(d) It becomes stranger.

12. What is Charles Hausler's job for Nikola Tesla?
(a) To file his invention papers.
(b) To feed and take care of the birds.
(c) To pay his taxes.
(d) To bring him meals.

13. Where are the plans for Nikola Tesla's "aeromobile"?
(a) The Tate.
(b) The Museum of Natural History.
(c) The Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade.
(d) The Smithsonian.

14. Where does Nikola Tesla maintain a laboratory for turbine work?
(a) Bridgeport, Connecticut.
(b) Chicago, Illinois.
(c) Newark, New Jersey.
(d) New York, New York.

15. In what year does the Great Depression begin?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1928.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1929.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who broadcasts voice and music programs in 1906 and 1907 based on Nikola Tesla's radio design and principles?

2. What are the descendants of the Tesla flivver airplane?

3. In 1906, what type of model does Nikola Tesla build?

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

5. In what year does Nikola Tesla file a patent to describe the supercooling of conductors to appreciably lower resistance?

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