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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 are the descendants of the Tesla flivver airplane?
(a) Gliders.
(b) Vertical Takeoff and Landing craft.
(c) Helicopters.
(d) Bombers.

2. Despite the fact that Nikola Tesla inspires the science of radar, in what year is Robert A. Watson-Watt officially credited with the invention?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1933.

3. On what does Nikola Tesla say that civilized nations would spend more on than war?
(a) Health.
(b) Agriculture.
(c) Education.
(d) Politics.

4. For what publication does Nikola Tesla write about women's superiority?
(a) The Harvard Review.
(b) Fortune.
(c) Colliers.
(d) The New Yorker.

5. Who funds Nikola Tesla's big Long Island experiment?
(a) Mark Twain.
(b) J. Pierpont Morgan.
(c) Robert Underwood Johnson.
(d) George Westinghouse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who uses Nikola Tesla's 1900 radio patent to signal the letter "S" across the Atlantic ocean?

2. Where is the National Research Council formed?

3. How old is writer Kenneth M. Swezey when he arrives in New York City?

4. Who arranges a party for Nikola Tesla's 75th birthday in 1931?

5. In how many days does Nikola Tesla think the turbine can drive ocean liners across the Atlantic?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Nikola try not to attend the Edison Medal ceremony to receive his award?

2. Why does Nikola care for pigeons in Chapter 23, "Pigeons"?

3. What role does the National Research Council have in preventing Nikola from getting his ideas listened to?

4. Why is there conflicting information about Nikola Tesla's invention of a "Chinese Wall" in the U.S. of Teleforce?

5. In Chapter 27, "Cosmic Communion," for what purpose does Nikola Tesla use his birthday parties during his eightieth decade?

6. What closure does Nikola get as he learns about medical uses for his oscillator inventions?

7. What mistake does Nikola make when proposing his process for degassifying copper to the American Smelting and Refining Company?

8. In Chapter 26, "Corks on Water," explain why J.P. Morgan will not invest in proposals Nikola Tesla makes after the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

9. In Chapter 22, "The Guest of Honor," what are B.A. Behrend's motives in persuading the AIEE to award the Edison Medal to Nikola Tesla?

10. In Chapter 25, "The Birthday Parties," how does Kenneth Swezey make Nikola's seventy-fifth birthday memorable?

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