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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 does a group of men offer Tesla the opportunity to do?
(a) Invest in other businesses.
(b) Buy Thomas Edison's company.
(c) Travel in Europe.
(d) Form his own company.

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

3. At what game does Nikola Tesla become skilled?
(a) Horseshoes.
(b) Chess.
(c) Billiards.
(d) Polo.

4. For what type of transmission is Nikola Tesla's research a precursor in around 1895?
(a) Radio wave.
(b) Convection.
(c) Microwave.
(d) Electromechanical.

5. In what year does the Tesla Electric Company open?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1876.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1887.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city does Nikola Tesla study after running out of funds for college?

2. In what city does Nikola Tesla find a job in 1881?

3. What does Nikola Tesla do to the oscillator?

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

5. What happens when Nikola Tesla visits an official in Washington to offer a robotic invention to the government?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

5. 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?

6. In Chapter 3, "Immigrants of Distinction," why is Nikola Tesla's invention of alternating current so important to the world?

7. In Chapter 4, "At the Court of Mr. Edison," describe the personality differences between Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla.

8. What invention does Nikola claim to be useful to send signals to Mars, and why is this possible?

9. What contributions does Nikola believe he has made to science as a result of his magnifying oscillator experiments in Colorado Springs?

10. In Chapter 14, "Blackout at Colorado Springs," what factors contribute to the failure of Nikola Tesla's Colorado Springs laboratory?

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