View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. At how many revolutions per minute does the Tesla turbine run?
(a) 40,000 RPM.
(b) 35,000 RPM.
(c) 37,500 RPM.
(d) 30,000 RPM.

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

4. in 1902, what engineer supports the work Nikola Tesla is doing?
(a) Fritz Lowenstein.
(b) Julian Hawthorne.
(c) Thomas Edison.
(d) Lord Kelvin.

5. Who finds Nikola Tesla dead in his bed on January 8?
(a) A hotel maid.
(b) Scherff.
(c) The hotel manager.
(d) H.W. Wembley.

6. 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 form of atomic energy.
(d) A new electronic dynamo for AC power.

7. How much does Nikola Tesla's 1906 invention weigh?
(a) 30 pounds.
(b) Less than 20 pounds.
(c) Less than 10 pounds.
(d) Between 30 and 40 pounds.

8. With what bird is Nikola Tesla enamored?
(a) Swallow.
(b) Robin.
(c) Pigeon.
(d) Blue jay.

9. Who arranges a party for Nikola Tesla's 75th birthday in 1931?
(a) Robert Underwood Johnson.
(b) His secretaries.
(c) Swezey.
(d) Scherff.

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

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

12. In what year does Nikola Tesla finally sue Marconi?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1914.

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

14. 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) It opens old wounds of his wars with Edison.
(c) He doesn't need the publicity.
(d) He doesn't have a new invention to justify the award.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year does the U.S. Supreme Court strike down the Marconi Company patents for the invention of radio?

3. What New York establishment drops Nikola Tesla's membership for non-payment of bills?

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

5. What professor finds Nikola Tesla's ideas "thermodynamically sound"?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 418 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample