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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 motor does Nikola Tesla conceive of while walking in the park?
(a) A DC motor.
(b) An AC motor.
(c) A pulley motor.
(d) A gas powered motor.

2. When does Nikola Tesla perform a major experiment in his Colorado Springs laboratory?
(a) June 27, 1899.
(b) July 3, 1899.
(c) August 5, 1899.
(d) September 1, 1899.

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

4. What happens to horses when Nikola Tesla is running his Colorado Springs experiments?
(a) They die.
(b) They go berserk, feeling shocks through their metal shoes.
(c) They return to the barn.
(d) They starve.

5. What accomplishment occurs at Niagara Falls in 1895?
(a) Westinghouse is ready to deliver 15,000 horsepower of electricity.
(b) GE delivers electricity first.
(c) Electrical lines are strung over the falls.
(d) George Westinghouse begins a new company.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age does Nikola Tesla take passage on the ship Saturnia?

2. What does Nikola Tesla believe is the greatest benefit of robots?

3. In what year does Nikola Tesla go to work for Thomas Edison's subsidiary in Paris?

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

5. Who adores Nikola Tesla for his many charms?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 5, "The War of the Currents Begins," why is Nikola Tesla depressed at age thirty?

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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