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

2. In what year does Katherine Johnson die?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1925.

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

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

5. In what year is the Wardenclyffe tower blown up?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1916.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1918.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What influences does Nikola Tesla believe will compromise the religion of the human race in the year 2100?

3. What happens to patents filed by Nikola Tesla in 1922?

4. What does Nikola Tesla do during the Edison Medal presentation ceremony?

5. What Supreme Court decision about Nikola Tesla's invention eight months after his death vindicates him?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 19, "The Nobel Affair," for what two inventions does Nikola Tesla think he can collaborate with John Hays Hammond, Jr., and why?

2. Why does Nikola care for pigeons in Chapter 23, "Pigeons"?

3. 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?

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

5. 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?

6. 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?

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

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

9. What use does Nikola describe for radar in Chapter 21, "Radar"?

10. 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.

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