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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 New York establishment drops Nikola Tesla's membership for non-payment of bills?
(a) The Players' Club.
(b) The Palms.
(c) The Regency Room.
(d) The Russian Tea Room.

2. After Mark Twain and J. Pierpont Morgan die, what happens to Nikola Tesla's behavior?
(a) It becomes erratic.
(b) It becomes more upbeat.
(c) It becomes stranger.
(d) It becomes depressing.

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

4. What is rumored to have been developed in 1924 by Nikola Tesla?
(a) A new oscillator.
(b) A warhead.
(c) A death ray.
(d) A torpedo.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what periodical does Nikola Tesla write in defense of King Alexander?

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

3. In what year does Nikola Tesla turn 80?

4. What does Nikola Tesla's 81st birthday bring him?

5. With whom does the New York Times suggest that Nikola Tesla will share the 1915 Nobel Prize in physics?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

10. 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?

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