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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. For what publication does Nikola Tesla write about women's superiority?
(a) Colliers.
(b) The New Yorker.
(c) Fortune.
(d) The Harvard Review.

3. How is Nikola Tesla planning to use the Tesla turbine engine?
(a) For radio broadcasting.
(b) To generate electricity.
(c) In a box-like flivver airplane.
(d) To create man-made lightning.

4. In what year does Nikola Tesla become very feeble?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1945.

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

6. 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 depressing.
(d) It becomes stranger.

7. Why does Nikola Tesla wish to reject the Edison Medal of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers?
(a) It doesn't bring him funding.
(b) He doesn't need the publicity.
(c) He doesn't have a new invention to justify the award.
(d) It opens old wounds of his wars with Edison.

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

9. Where does Nikola Tesla maintain a laboratory for turbine work?
(a) Newark, New Jersey.
(b) New York, New York.
(c) Chicago, Illinois.
(d) Bridgeport, Connecticut.

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

11. Who finds Nikola Tesla dead in his bed on January 8?
(a) Scherff.
(b) H.W. Wembley.
(c) The hotel manager.
(d) A hotel maid.

12. What is George Sylvester Viereck's vocation?
(a) A scientist.
(b) A politician.
(c) A poet.
(d) An engineer.

13. Who arrives in America from Europe and becomes a minister of the new Tito government?
(a) Nikola Tesla's cousin.
(b) Nikola Tesla's sister.
(c) Nikola Tesla's nephew.
(d) Nikola Tesla's best friend.

14. In what year does the U.S. Supreme Court strike down the Marconi Company patents for the invention of radio?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1941.

15. Who arranges a party for Nikola Tesla's 75th birthday in 1931?
(a) His secretaries.
(b) Scherff.
(c) Swezey.
(d) Robert Underwood Johnson.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much does Nikola Tesla's 1906 invention weigh?

2. Where does Nikola Tesla go to create new inventions right after the Edison Medal event?

3. On what invention does Nikola Tesla claim he is working?

4. What is Charles Hausler's job for Nikola Tesla?

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

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