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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. In what year does Nikola Tesla file a patent to describe the supercooling of conductors to appreciably lower resistance?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1901.

2. Who funds Nikola Tesla's big Long Island experiment?
(a) Mark Twain.
(b) Robert Underwood Johnson.
(c) J. Pierpont Morgan.
(d) George Westinghouse.

3. Why is Nikola Tesla never sure what day to celebrate for his birthday?
(a) He has no birth certificate.
(b) He isn't told his birthday.
(c) He cannot remember his birthday.
(d) He is born at midnight.

4. To where does Nikola Tesla begin to write letters at age fifty?
(a) Newspapers.
(b) Radio.
(c) Magazines.
(d) Television.

5. What does Nikola Tesla do during the Edison Medal presentation ceremony?
(a) Collapse.
(b) Laugh.
(c) Disappear.
(d) Dance.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does the U.S. Supreme Court strike down the Marconi Company patents for the invention of radio?

2. Who broadcasts voice and music programs in 1906 and 1907 based on Nikola Tesla's radio design and principles?

3. What magazine carries two of Nikola Tesla's designs: extracting electricity from seawater and plans for a geothermal steam plant?

4. Who finds Nikola Tesla dead in his bed on January 8?

5. About what do Nikola Tesla and John Hays Hammond Jr. correspond?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the New York Times publishes a story indicating that Tesla and Edison will receive a Nobel Prize in physics?

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

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

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

5. Why is Nikola Tesla constantly passed over for fame and fortune for his inventions, especially radio?

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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