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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. In 1927, who tries to help Nikola Tesla with the promotion of a scientific concept?
(a) Francis A. Fitzgerald.
(b) John Hays Hammond, Jr.
(c) Scherff.
(d) Robert Underwood Johnson.

2. How does Nikola Tesla have photographs produced of the Colorado Springs lightning experiment?
(a) Using negatives.
(b) Using time exposures.
(c) Using artistic enhancement.
(d) Using plates.

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

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

5. To which fellow New Yorker does Nikola Tesla pay back old debts?
(a) John Hays Hammond, Jr.
(b) Robert Underwood Johnson.
(c) George Westinghouse.
(d) Thomas Edison.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much capital funded the incorporation of the Tesla Ozone Company?

2. What is rumored to have been developed in 1924 by Nikola Tesla?

3. To what periodical does Nikola Tesla write in defense of King Alexander?

4. Where does Nikola Tesla go to create new inventions right after the Edison Medal event?

5. What New York establishment drops Nikola Tesla's membership for non-payment of bills?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 16,"Ridiculed, Condemned, Combated," what project is responsible for Nikola Tesla getting little sleep?

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

8. In Chapter 24, "Transitions," why does Nikola Tesla bemoan the "problem" of women in an interview in the Detroit Free Press?

9. In the face of what is termed the 1903 "Rich Man's Panic," how does Scherff advise Nikola Tesla to leverage one of his inventions to raise funds?

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

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