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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Nikola Tesla planning to use the Tesla turbine engine?
(a) For radio broadcasting.
(b) To create man-made lightning.
(c) In a box-like flivver airplane.
(d) To generate electricity.

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

3. To what periodical does Nikola Tesla write in defense of King Alexander?
(a) The Daily News.
(b) The Wall Street Journal.
(c) The New York Times.
(d) The Post.

4. What is rumored to have been developed in 1924 by Nikola Tesla?
(a) A death ray.
(b) A torpedo.
(c) A new oscillator.
(d) A warhead.

5. Who funds Nikola Tesla's big Long Island experiment?
(a) Mark Twain.
(b) J. Pierpont Morgan.
(c) Robert Underwood Johnson.
(d) George Westinghouse.

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

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

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

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

10. What does Nikola Tesla's 81st birthday bring him?
(a) More funding for research.
(b) More international recognition.
(c) A new secretary.
(d) A new laboratory.

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

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

13. In what year do Nikola Tesla's friends Hobson and Johnson die?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1935.

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

15. How old is writer Kenneth M. Swezey when he arrives in New York City?
(a) 24.
(b) 19.
(c) 15.
(d) 20.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much capital funded the incorporation of the Tesla Ozone Company?

2. In what year does the Luftwaffe bomb Belgrade?

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

4. After Mark Twain and J. Pierpont Morgan die, what happens to Nikola Tesla's behavior?

5. What hotel is Nikola Tesla told to vacate in part because of his birds?

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