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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. For what experiment does Nikola Tesla solicit funding in New York in 1900?
(a) A lightning generator.
(b) A new carbon button lamp.
(c) A new oscillator.
(d) Telegraphic communication to any point on the globe.

2. in 1902, what engineer supports the work Nikola Tesla is doing?
(a) Fritz Lowenstein.
(b) Julian Hawthorne.
(c) Lord Kelvin.
(d) Thomas Edison.

3. What Supreme Court decision about Nikola Tesla's invention eight months after his death vindicates him?
(a) He is credited with the invention of artificial lightning.
(b) He is credited with the invention of nuclear power.
(c) He is credited with the invention of radio.
(d) He is credited with the invention of submarines.

4. With whom does the New York Times suggest that Nikola Tesla will share the 1915 Nobel Prize in physics?
(a) Thomas Edison.
(b) George Westinghouse.
(c) Scherff.
(d) John Hays Hammond, Jr.

5. Despite the fact that Nikola Tesla inspires the science of radar, in what year is Robert A. Watson-Watt officially credited with the invention?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1935.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are the descendants of the Tesla flivver airplane?

3. In what year is the Wardenclyffe tower blown up?

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

5. What do scientists and engineers worldwide do for Nikola Tesla's 75th birthday?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

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