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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. In what city does Nikola Tesla find a job in 1881?
(a) Munich.
(b) Vienna.
(c) Prague.
(d) Budapest.
2. From what financier does Nikola Tesla choose NOT to accept funds?
(a) Robert Underwood Johnson.
(b) J. Pierpont Morgan.
(c) George Westinghouse.
(d) Thomas Edison.
3. How does Thomas Edison use electrocution as a political weapon?
(a) He publishes a newspaper article.
(b) He sues Nikola Tesla for patent infringement.
(c) He electrocutes birds.
(d) He refers publicly to an electrocuted prisoner as being "Westinghoused."
4. To what group does Nikola Tesla give a lecture about mechanical electrical oscillators on August 25, 1893?
(a) The engineers at the Chicago World's Fair.
(b) The United States Congress.
(c) The International Congress.
(d) The Electrical Congress.
5. Who later demonstrates the correctness of Nikola Tesla's theory of cosmic rays as high-energy subatomic particles that could make other substances radioactive?
(a) Irene Curie.
(b) Thomas Edison.
(c) Vladimir Zworykin.
(d) Henri Becquerel.
Short Answer Questions
1. To what author is Nikola Tesla introduced while ill as a child?
2. What system of Nikola Tesla's invention allows alternating current to be delivered?
3. Why is Nikola Tesla's vacuum tube unsuitable for laboratory research?
4. With what device does Nikola Tesla achieve tensions of about one million volts?
5. In the early 1900s, from what illness does Nikola Tesla suffer?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 6, "Order of the Flaming Sword," Nikola Tesla develops what he calls a carbon button lamp. For what later device does the lamp serve as a prototype?
2. Describe three elements of the friendship between Nikola Tesla and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wood Johnson.
3. Nikola produces the first x-ray picture in America. Why does he not commercialize this discovery?
4. What contributions does Nikola believe he has made to science as a result of his magnifying oscillator experiments in Colorado Springs?
5. In Chapter 4, "At the Court of Mr. Edison," describe the personality differences between Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla.
6. In Chapter 6, "Order of the Flaming Sword," what practical applications do Nikola Tesla's inventions have?
7. In Chapter 3, "Immigrants of Distinction," describe the influence that Charles Bachelor has on Nikola Tesla.
8. In Chapter 5, "The War of the Currents Begins," describe several events that demonstrate that Nikola Tesla's notoriety is growing.
9. In Chapter 2, "A Gambling Man," why does Nikola Tesla feel disappointed for his mother?
10. What potential modern applications does author Margaret Cheney describe for Nikola Tesla's invention of a peculiar and sensitive vacuum tube?
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