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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. Who arrives in America from Europe and becomes a minister of the new Tito government?
(a) Nikola Tesla's nephew.
(b) Nikola Tesla's best friend.
(c) Nikola Tesla's cousin.
(d) Nikola Tesla's sister.

2. In what year does Nikola Tesla finally sue Marconi?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1914.

3. What does Nikola Tesla need now to capitalize on his 1906 invention?
(a) A manufacturing plant.
(b) Capital.
(c) A business manager.
(d) Inventory.

4. Whom does Lt. Hobson try to interest in robotry as a way to raise funds for Nikola Tesla?
(a) The Coast Guard.
(b) The Marines.
(c) The Navy.
(d) The Army.

5. What is Charles Hausler's job for Nikola Tesla?
(a) To pay his taxes.
(b) To feed and take care of the birds.
(c) To file his invention papers.
(d) To bring him meals.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does the New York Times suggest that Nikola Tesla will share the 1915 Nobel Prize in physics?

2. To which fellow New Yorker does Nikola Tesla pay back old debts?

3. What is being manufactured at Wardenclyffe?

4. What is George Sylvester Viereck's vocation?

5. On what does Nikola Tesla say that civilized nations would spend more on than war?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the fact that Nikola Tesla tries to send a letter to the long-dead Mark Twain signal about his impending death?

2. What influence does Nikola have on some Canadians with respect to wireless electric power generation?

3. In Chapter 17, "The Great Radio Controversy," what court rules that Nikola Tesla is the inventor of radio, rather than William Marconi?

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

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

6. Why is Nikola Tesla constantly passed over for fame and fortune for his inventions, especially radio?

7. In Chapter 15, "Magnificent and Doomed," what trickery does Nikola Tesla use in pictures in a published article to give the impression that he is impervious to the lighting generated at his Colorado Springs laboratory?

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

9. 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.

10. What use does Nikola describe for radar in Chapter 21, "Radar"?

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