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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. For what experiment does Nikola Tesla solicit funding in New York in 1900?
(a) A new oscillator.
(b) Telegraphic communication to any point on the globe.
(c) A new carbon button lamp.
(d) A lightning generator.

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

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

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

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

10. In how many days does Nikola Tesla think the turbine can drive ocean liners across the Atlantic?
(a) 6 days.
(b) 4 days.
(c) 3 days.
(d) 5 days.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year does Katherine Johnson die?

3. Where is the National Research Council formed?

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

5. How does Nikola Tesla have photographs produced of the Colorado Springs lightning experiment?

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