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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. Why does Nikola Tesla ignore the NRC mission of finding a way to detect U-Boats?
(a) He doesn't have the funds.
(b) He has already worked with the detection of U-Boats.
(c) He doesn't have the right laboratory
(d) He is busy working with guided missiles and doomsday machines.

2. Who backs out of his commitment for further investment in Wardenclyffe?
(a) Scherff.
(b) The Navy.
(c) J. Pierpont Morgan.
(d) Katherine Johnson.

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

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

5. Who writes letters to Nikola Tesla from around the country, trying to encourage him about better health?
(a) Scherff.
(b) George Westinghouse.
(c) Lt. Hobson.
(d) Katherine Johnson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Nikola Tesla wish to reject the Edison Medal of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers?

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

3. Where is the National Research Council formed?

4. For what is Nikola Tesla singled out due to the role of Yugoslavia in the upcoming war?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What do Nikola and Ivan Mestrovic have in common, and how do they leverage those commonalities?

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

5. 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?

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

7. After 1915, why does Nikola work for two companies as described in Chapter 20, "Flying Stove"?

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

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

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