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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 is Nikola Tesla's first job accomplishment with Thomas Edison?
(a) He improves Edison's laboratory.
(b) He invents new types of light bulbs.
(c) He fixes a ship's lighting plant.
(d) He improves direct current.

2. What does Thomas Edison do to try to quash the acquisition of Nikola Tesla's invention?
(a) He offers Tesla stock in his company.
(b) He buys out Nikola Tesla.
(c) He meets with George Westinghouse.
(d) He conducts a smear campaign against Westinghouse and alternating current.

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

4. In Chapter 13, what is the invention that most fascinates Nikola Tesla followers?
(a) The transmitter.
(b) The Copper Button Lamp.
(c) The remote controlled ship.
(d) The valve.

5. What does Nikola Tesla demonstrate with thousands of high-frequency volts running through his body?
(a) The light on Mars.
(b) A working model of the incandescent sun.
(c) Moonlight.
(d) A fluorescent light bulb.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nikola Tesla do to the oscillator?

2. What trait is suspected by some about Nikola Tesla during the Gilded Age?

3. In what year does Ernest Orlando Lawrence win a Nobel prize for the cyclotron, a precursor of which Nikola Tesla exhibited?

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

5. What accomplishment occurs at Niagara Falls in 1895?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter 10, "An Error in Judgment," describe three reasons why Nikola is almost destitute financially.

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

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

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

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

9. In Chapter 3, "Immigrants of Distinction," describe the influence that Charles Bachelor has on Nikola Tesla.

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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