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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 what year does Nikola Tesla file a patent to describe the supercooling of conductors to appreciably lower resistance?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1899.

2. What hotel is Nikola Tesla told to vacate in part because of his birds?
(a) The Regency.
(b) The Park.
(c) The Waldorf.
(d) The St. Regis.

3. What do scientists and engineers worldwide do for Nikola Tesla's 75th birthday?
(a) Attend his party.
(b) Send gifts.
(c) Write letters and tributes.
(d) Publish his articles.

4. 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 doesn't have the right laboratory
(c) He has already worked with the detection of U-Boats.
(d) He is busy working with guided missiles and doomsday machines.

5. In what decade is Prohibition enacted?
(a) 1930s.
(b) 1920s.
(c) 1910s.
(d) 1900s.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who writes letters to Nikola Tesla from around the country, trying to encourage him about better health?

2. In what year do Nikola Tesla's friends Hobson and Johnson die?

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

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

5. In 1906, what type of model does Nikola Tesla build?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

7. Describe why Nikola, now in his fifties, aggrandizes his theories and projects to others.

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

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

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

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