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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What New York establishment drops Nikola Tesla's membership for non-payment of bills?
(a) The Regency Room.
(b) The Players' Club.
(c) The Palms.
(d) The Russian Tea Room.

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

3. In 1927, who tries to help Nikola Tesla with the promotion of a scientific concept?
(a) Scherff.
(b) Robert Underwood Johnson.
(c) Francis A. Fitzgerald.
(d) John Hays Hammond, Jr.

4. Where does Nikola Tesla spend time feeding pigeons?
(a) Central Park.
(b) Union Square Park.
(c) Riverside Drive Park.
(d) Bryant Park.

5. Who uses Nikola Tesla's 1900 radio patent to signal the letter "S" across the Atlantic ocean?
(a) Edison.
(b) Marconi.
(c) Scherff.
(d) Westinghouse.

6. For what invention is the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics given?
(a) The copper button lamp.
(b) The use of X-rays to determine the structure of crystals.
(c) The creation of man-made lightning.
(d) The invention of radio.

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

8. 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.

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

10. How does Nikola Tesla have photographs produced of the Colorado Springs lightning experiment?
(a) Using artistic enhancement.
(b) Using time exposures.
(c) Using negatives.
(d) Using plates.

11. 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) He doesn't need the publicity.
(d) It doesn't bring him funding.

12. In what year is Nikola Tesla summoned to court for failure to pay his takes in New York City?
(a) 1914.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1916.
(d) 1917.

13. What do scientists and engineers worldwide do for Nikola Tesla's 75th birthday?
(a) Attend his party.
(b) Send gifts.
(c) Publish his articles.
(d) Write letters and tributes.

14. What is George Sylvester Viereck's vocation?
(a) A scientist.
(b) A politician.
(c) A poet.
(d) An engineer.

15. Who backs out of his commitment for further investment in Wardenclyffe?
(a) Scherff.
(b) Katherine Johnson.
(c) J. Pierpont Morgan.
(d) The Navy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who tries to learn the secret of animosity between Nikola Tesla and professor Pupin?

3. What does Nikola Tesla's 81st birthday bring him?

4. In what year is Yugoslavia formed?

5. What is the location of the tower that Nikola Tesla builds for his experiment on Long Island?

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