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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 magazine carries two of Nikola Tesla's designs: extracting electricity from seawater and plans for a geothermal steam plant?
(a) Discovery.
(b) Scientific American.
(c) Popular Science.
(d) Everyday Science & Mechanics.

2. What is Charles Hausler's job for Nikola Tesla?
(a) To pay his taxes.
(b) To bring him meals.
(c) To file his invention papers.
(d) To feed and take care of the birds.

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

4. Where is the National Research Council formed?
(a) Washington, DC.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Boston.
(d) New York City.

5. In what year does the Luftwaffe bomb Belgrade?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1940.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1906, what type of model does Nikola Tesla build?

2. Besides being an inventor, for what other role is Nikola Tesla known?

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

4. Who writes letters to Nikola Tesla from around the country, trying to encourage him about better health?

5. With what bird is Nikola Tesla enamored?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

7. 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.

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 does the fact that Nikola Tesla tries to send a letter to the long-dead Mark Twain signal about his impending death?

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

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