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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of electrical service does Thomas Edison supply to people?
(a) Direct current.
(b) Hydroelectric current.
(c) Indirect current.
(d) Alternating current.

2. What does Nikola Tesla believe is the greatest benefit of robots?
(a) Service to the military.
(b) Service to humanity.
(c) Service to boats.
(d) Service to traffic.

3. In what year does Nikola Tesla go to work for Thomas Edison's subsidiary in Paris?
(a) 1882.
(b) 1881.
(c) 1880.
(d) 1883.

4. What type of engine does Nikola Tesla invent in Chapter 12, "Robots"?
(a) A steam driven engine.
(b) A vacuum engine.
(c) A water engine.
(d) A solar engine.

5. Whom does Nikola Tesla invite to his laboratory at midnight to view his experiments?
(a) Robert Underwood Johnson.
(b) Marguerite Merrington.
(c) William K. Vanderbuilt.
(d) Mark Twain.

Short Answer Questions

1. How tall is Nikola Tesla in the year 1893?

2. How does Thomas Edison use electrocution as a political weapon?

3. After World War II, much of Nikola Tesla's library materials are shipped where?

4. What event takes Nikola Tesla away from radio research in 1893?

5. Who contributed $30,000 toward the building of the new research station?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the "Acknowledgements" section, describe the reasons Leland Anderson is interested in Nikola Tesla.

2. Nikola produces the first x-ray picture in America. Why does he not commercialize this discovery?

3. Describe three elements of the friendship between Nikola Tesla and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wood Johnson.

4. In Chapter 4, "At the Court of Mr. Edison," why is the early relationship between Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison strained?

5. What are the six fundamental principles of modern radio, and where does Nikola Tesla demonstrate them in 1893?

6. In Chapter 12, "Robots," why does Nikola Tesla have challenges moving his inventions from his laboratory into working prototypes?

7. In Chapter 1, "Modern Prometheus," what is the result of Nikola Tesla's fireball demonstration for Mark Twain and several other contemporaries?

8. From the book's Introduction, why does Nikola Tesla maintain an intensely private life?

9. In Chapter 9, "High Road, Low Road," Nikola Tesla focuses on the use of alternating current for electricity generation, while his competitor Thomas Edison refuses to endorse anything but direct current. How is the electricity generation business divided in the mid-1890s in Buffalo?

10. In Chapter 13, "Hurler of Lightning," what are some of the effects of Nikola Tesla's experiments with the magnifying oscillator in Colorado Springs?

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