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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What system of Nikola Tesla's invention allows alternating current to be delivered?
(a) Fluorescent bulb system.
(b) Voltage system.
(c) Polyphase system.
(d) DC system.

2. In the year 1888, who buys Nikola Tesla's patents to use in his electric company?
(a) Mark Twain.
(b) Thomas Edison.
(c) George Westinghouse.
(d) Dr. B.A. Behrend.

3. How does Nikola Tesla feel when he sees his experiment in progress?
(a) Nervous.
(b) Scared.
(c) Excited.
(d) Blissful.

4. Who later demonstrates the correctness of Nikola Tesla's theory of cosmic rays as high-energy subatomic particles that could make other substances radioactive?
(a) Henri Becquerel.
(b) Irene Curie.
(c) Vladimir Zworykin.
(d) Thomas Edison.

5. For what patent does Nikola Tesla file in 1898?
(a) An alternating current engine for an automobile.
(b) Radio transistors.
(c) Radio remote control for use in his laboratory.
(d) Radio remote control for use in guided vehicles.

6. What does a group of men offer Tesla the opportunity to do?
(a) Buy Thomas Edison's company.
(b) Travel in Europe.
(c) Invest in other businesses.
(d) Form his own company.

7. To what group does Nikola Tesla give a lecture about mechanical electrical oscillators on August 25, 1893?
(a) The Electrical Congress.
(b) The International Congress.
(c) The United States Congress.
(d) The engineers at the Chicago World's Fair.

8. After World War II, much of Nikola Tesla's library materials are shipped where?
(a) Washington, D.C.
(b) Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
(c) London, England.
(d) Paris, France.

9. In what subject does Nikola Tesla excel in high school?
(a) Science.
(b) Math.
(c) Art.
(d) Social studies.

10. Who helps to found the Tesla Society around 1956?
(a) Gano Dunn.
(b) D. McFarlan Moore.
(c) Leland Anderson.
(d) Louis Cohen.

11. At what game does Nikola Tesla become skilled?
(a) Billiards.
(b) Chess.
(c) Horseshoes.
(d) Polo.

12. In what field does Nikola Tesla pioneer inventions while the Nobel Prize goes to three others?
(a) Wireless technology.
(b) The transistor.
(c) Radar.
(d) The radio.

13. What does Nikola Tesla believe is the greatest benefit of robots?
(a) Service to humanity.
(b) Service to the military.
(c) Service to boats.
(d) Service to traffic.

14. In what year does Ernest Orlando Lawrence win a Nobel prize for the cyclotron, a precursor of which Nikola Tesla exhibited?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1938.

15. With what planet does Nikola Tesla say communication can be made?
(a) Venus.
(b) Mars.
(c) Uranus.
(d) Jupiter.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many volts are Nikola Tesla's coils producing when he asks Leonard Curtis to find him a new laboratory?

2. In Chapter 6, "Order of the Flaming Sword," how does Nikola Tesla share his inventions of electricity in a vacuum tube with other scientists?

3. What does Nikola Tesla ask Westinghouse to do with their royalties agreement?

4. Where is the Palm Room?

5. By 1981, how many patents does Nikola Tesla get for AC electric systems?

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