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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what field does Nikola Tesla pioneer inventions while the Nobel Prize goes to three others?
(a) The radio.
(b) The transistor.
(c) Radar.
(d) Wireless technology.

2. What event takes Nikola Tesla away from radio research in 1893?
(a) The Chicago World's Fair.
(b) The World Congress.
(c) A bad radio experiment.
(d) A scientists' meeting in London.

3. With what device does Nikola Tesla achieve tensions of about one million volts?
(a) Linear coil.
(b) Conical coil.
(c) Cylindrical coil.
(d) Spherical coil.

4. In the year 1888, who buys Nikola Tesla's patents to use in his electric company?
(a) Mark Twain.
(b) George Westinghouse.
(c) Dr. B.A. Behrend.
(d) Thomas Edison.

5. What is the name of the lamp that Nikola Tesla invents?
(a) Carbon-button lamp.
(b) Diamond-button lamp.
(c) Ruby-button lamp.
(d) Zirconia-button lamp.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year is Yugoslavia formed?

2. Who uses Nikola Tesla's 1900 radio patent to signal the letter "S" across the Atlantic ocean?

3. Where are the plans for Nikola Tesla's "aeromobile"?

4. Who denies categorically that the F.B.I. did not go through Nikola Tesla's papers?

5. In what year do Nikola Tesla's friends Hobson and Johnson die?

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