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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. How much does Nikola Tesla's 1906 invention weigh?
(a) 30 pounds.
(b) Between 30 and 40 pounds.
(c) Less than 20 pounds.
(d) Less than 10 pounds.

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

3. What does Nikola Tesla believe about life on other planets?
(a) It may exist on Jupiter.
(b) It does not exist on Venus.
(c) It is a possibility.
(d) It is a certitude.

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

5. In what year does the Great Depression begin?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1928.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is being manufactured at Wardenclyffe?

2. In what decade is Prohibition enacted?

3. In 1927, who tries to help Nikola Tesla with the promotion of a scientific concept?

4. What is the location of the tower that Nikola Tesla builds for his experiment on Long Island?

5. After Mark Twain and J. Pierpont Morgan die, what happens to Nikola Tesla's behavior?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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