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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, The Beginning: Chapter 4, Radio & High Society.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what city does Nikola Tesla find a job in 1881?
(a) Prague.
(b) Vienna.
(c) Munich.
(d) Budapest.

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

3. What does Nikola Tesla demonstrate with thousands of high-frequency volts running through his body?
(a) Moonlight.
(b) The light on Mars.
(c) A working model of the incandescent sun.
(d) A fluorescent light bulb.

4. In what 1896 publication is there speculation about Nikola Tesla's status with women?
(a) The Electrical Review.
(b) The Wall Street Journal.
(c) The New York Times.
(d) The Electrical Times.

5. For what does Nikola offer a plan to redesign for Edison?
(a) Electrical systems for ships.
(b) His direct current laboratory.
(c) The electric light bulb.
(d) His dynamos.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the lamp that Nikola Tesla invents?

2. What does Thomas Edison do to try to quash the acquisition of Nikola Tesla's invention?

3. What event takes Nikola Tesla away from radio research in 1893?

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

5. In what year does Nikola Tesla go to work for Thomas Edison's subsidiary in Paris?

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