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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Tesla's Middle Years: Chapter 1, Ethics & Error in Tesla's Path.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year is Nikola Tesla born?
(a) 1855.
(b) 1856.
(c) 1857.
(d) 1854.

2. Why is Nikola Tesla's vacuum tube unsuitable for laboratory research?
(a) It is too expensive.
(b) It is too large.
(c) It is difficult to adjust.
(d) It is too small.

3. 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) Vladimir Zworykin.
(c) Thomas Edison.
(d) Irene Curie.

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

5. From what financier does Nikola Tesla choose NOT to accept funds?
(a) Thomas Edison.
(b) George Westinghouse.
(c) J. Pierpont Morgan.
(d) Robert Underwood Johnson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Nikola Tesla's laboratory in 1895?

2. In what city does Nikola Tesla give a lecture to the Institution of Electrical Engineers?

3. How tall is Nikola Tesla in the year 1893?

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

5. In the year 1888, who buys Nikola Tesla's patents to use in his electric company?

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