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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. Besides being an inventor, for what other role is Nikola Tesla known?
(a) Financier.
(b) Writer.
(c) Publicist.
(d) Teacher.

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

3. What company refuses to entertain any of Nikola Tesla's proposals in 1920?
(a) General Electric Company.
(b) The Westinghouse Company.
(c) RCA.
(d) Edison Electric Company.

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

5. With what bird is Nikola Tesla enamored?
(a) Pigeon.
(b) Robin.
(c) Swallow.
(d) Blue jay.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who broadcasts voice and music programs in 1906 and 1907 based on Nikola Tesla's radio design and principles?

2. After J. Pierpont Morgan dies in 1913, from whom does Nikola Tesla try to get investment funding?

3. In what decade is Prohibition enacted?

4. Why is Nikola Tesla never sure what day to celebrate for his birthday?

5. Who asks Nikola Tesla to accept the Edison Medal of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. 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?

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

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

6. Describe Nikola's appearance and day-to-day circumstances as he enters his fifties as described in Chapter 18, "Midstream Perils".

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

8. What happens when the New York Times publishes a story indicating that Tesla and Edison will receive a Nobel Prize in physics?

9. Whom does Nikola approach for funding for his system to broadcast all wavelength channels from a single station, and why is this person his choice?

10. What is different about Nikola's flivver airplane, or flying stove, and other existing aircraft?

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