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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 uses Nikola Tesla's 1900 radio patent to signal the letter "S" across the Atlantic ocean?
(a) Scherff.
(b) Westinghouse.
(c) Edison.
(d) Marconi.

2. For what purpose does Nikola Tesla propose the use of radar?
(a) To monitor automobile traffic.
(b) To set a sighting on a ship.
(c) To locate a hidden submarine.
(d) To pinpoint where airplanes are in the sky.

3. In what year does Nikola Tesla turn 80?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1935.

4. For what invention is the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics given?
(a) The copper button lamp.
(b) The creation of man-made lightning.
(c) The use of X-rays to determine the structure of crystals.
(d) The invention of radio.

5. What is the location of the tower that Nikola Tesla builds for his experiment on Long Island?
(a) Oyster Point.
(b) Wardenclyffe.
(c) The Hamptons.
(d) Shoreham.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who arrives in America from Europe and becomes a minister of the new Tito government?

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

3. Where does Nikola Tesla maintain a laboratory for turbine work?

4. What hotel is Nikola Tesla told to vacate in part because of his birds?

5. Whom does Lt. Hobson try to interest in robotry as a way to raise funds for Nikola Tesla?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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