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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, The Final Decades: Chapter 3, Birthday Corks.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what purpose does Nikola Tesla propose the use of radar?
(a) To locate a hidden submarine.
(b) To set a sighting on a ship.
(c) To monitor automobile traffic.
(d) To pinpoint where airplanes are in the sky.

2. Where is the Palm Room?
(a) In the Waldorf Astoria Hotel.
(b) In the St. Regis Hotel.
(c) In the Hyatt Regency Hotel.
(d) In the Plaza Hotel.

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

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

5. What is the Tesla coil?
(a) A vacuum tube.
(b) A radio wave.
(c) A high frequency transmitter.
(d) An electromagnetic force.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who backs out of his commitment for further investment in Wardenclyffe?

2. What magazine carries two of Nikola Tesla's designs: extracting electricity from seawater and plans for a geothermal steam plant?

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

4. What professor finds Nikola Tesla's ideas "thermodynamically sound"?

5. In what year does Nikola Tesla finally sue Marconi?

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