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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 year does Ernest Orlando Lawrence win a Nobel prize for the cyclotron, a precursor of which Nikola Tesla exhibited?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1936.

2. After World War II, much of Nikola Tesla's library materials are shipped where?
(a) Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
(b) Paris, France.
(c) Washington, D.C.
(d) London, England.

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

4. Who adores Nikola Tesla for his many charms?
(a) The Thomas Edisons.
(b) The Thomas Commerfod Martins.
(c) The Robert Underwood Johnsons.
(d) The George Westinghouses.

5. What happens to Nikola Tesla when he steps onto his experimental platform in his laboratory?
(a) He is fine.
(b) He is burned.
(c) He shudders.
(d) He loses consciousness.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. With what device does Nikola Tesla achieve tensions of about one million volts?

3. Why are balloons ordered?

4. In what year is Nikola Tesla born?

5. What is Nikola Tesla doing in Europe when he conceives the idea that man could produce electric storms?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter 11, "To Mars," what patents does Nikola file in November, 1897, and what application do they potentially support?

3. How does Nikola out in Colorado keep Scherff motivated while working at the laboratory back in New York?

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

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

6. In Chapter 7, "Radio," why does Nikola Tesla feel the need to go home?

7. In Chapter 5, "The War of the Currents Begins," describe several events that demonstrate that Nikola Tesla's notoriety is growing.

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

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

10. Why does Nikola Tesla become a regular patron at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City in Chapter 8, "High Society"?

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