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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the location of the tower that Nikola Tesla builds for his experiment on Long Island?
(a) Shoreham.
(b) Oyster Point.
(c) The Hamptons.
(d) Wardenclyffe.

2. What company refuses to entertain any of Nikola Tesla's proposals in 1920?
(a) Edison Electric Company.
(b) RCA.
(c) General Electric Company.
(d) The Westinghouse Company.

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

4. Besides being an inventor, for what other role is Nikola Tesla known?
(a) Publicist.
(b) Writer.
(c) Financier.
(d) Teacher.

5. Where does Nikola Tesla spend time feeding pigeons?
(a) Riverside Drive Park.
(b) Central Park.
(c) Bryant Park.
(d) Union Square Park.

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

7. Despite the fact that Nikola Tesla inspires the science of radar, in what year is Robert A. Watson-Watt officially credited with the invention?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1937.

8. How much does Nikola Tesla's 1906 invention weigh?
(a) Less than 20 pounds.
(b) Less than 10 pounds.
(c) 30 pounds.
(d) Between 30 and 40 pounds.

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

10. What type of weapon does Nikola envision in his conversations with Viereck?
(a) A death ray gun.
(b) A nuclear submarine.
(c) A guided missile.
(d) An apparatus that projects charged particles.

11. In what year does the Great Depression begin?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1927.
(d) 1928.

12. With what bird is Nikola Tesla enamored?
(a) Pigeon.
(b) Blue jay.
(c) Swallow.
(d) Robin.

13. Where are the plans for Nikola Tesla's "aeromobile"?
(a) The Tate.
(b) The Museum of Natural History.
(c) The Smithsonian.
(d) The Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who asks Nikola Tesla to accept the Edison Medal of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers?

2. In how many days does Nikola Tesla think the turbine can drive ocean liners across the Atlantic?

3. What name does Nikola Tesla call Marconi?

4. In what year does Katherine Johnson die?

5. On how many new inventions does Nikola Tesla say Teleforce is based?

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