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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. Where does Charles Batchelor encourage Nikola Tesla to go?
(a) To Paris.
(b) To Munich.
(c) To London.
(d) To America.
2. What event takes Nikola Tesla away from radio research in 1893?
(a) A scientists' meeting in London.
(b) A bad radio experiment.
(c) The World Congress.
(d) The Chicago World's Fair.
3. 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) Henri Becquerel.
(b) Thomas Edison.
(c) Vladimir Zworykin.
(d) Irene Curie.
4. How does Nikola Tesla sometimes feel because he has not married?
(a) Lonely.
(b) Frustrated.
(c) Elusive.
(d) Happy.
5. 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.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Nikola Tesla's first two-way radio controlled object?
2. How does Nikola Tesla feel when he sees his experiment in progress?
3. In what year does Nikola Tesla describe in detail the principles of radio broadcasting?
4. What happens when Nikola Tesla visits an official in Washington to offer a robotic invention to the government?
5. In what year does the Tesla Electric Company open?
Short Essay Questions
1. What invention does Nikola claim to be useful to send signals to Mars, and why is this possible?
2. In Chapter 1, "Modern Prometheus," what is the result of Nikola Tesla's fireball demonstration for Mark Twain and several other contemporaries?
3. In Chapter 4, "At the Court of Mr. Edison," describe the personality differences between Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla.
4. 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?
5. Why does Nikola Tesla become a regular patron at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City in Chapter 8, "High Society"?
6. In Chapter 2, "A Gambling Man," why does Nikola Tesla feel disappointed for his mother?
7. In Chapter 10, "An Error in Judgment," describe three reasons why Nikola is almost destitute financially.
8. In Chapter 14, "Blackout at Colorado Springs," what factors contribute to the failure of Nikola Tesla's Colorado Springs laboratory?
9. From the book's Introduction, why does Nikola Tesla maintain an intensely private life?
10. In Chapter 11, "To Mars," what patents does Nikola file in November, 1897, and what application do they potentially support?
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