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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Tesla's Middle Years: Chapter 6, Nobel Stove.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 1936.
(d) 1940.

2. What does Nikola Tesla believe can be produced on Earth with an oscillator?
(a) Stationary waves.
(b) Remote electricity.
(c) Stationary pulses.
(d) Nuclear power.

3. What is being manufactured at Wardenclyffe?
(a) Lightning generators.
(b) Copper button lamps.
(c) Medical coils.
(d) Radios.

4. How many volts are Nikola Tesla's coils producing when he asks Leonard Curtis to find him a new laboratory?
(a) 4,000,000.
(b) 4,500,000.
(c) 3,500.
(d) 50,000.

5. How does Thomas Edison use electrocution as a political weapon?
(a) He sues Nikola Tesla for patent infringement.
(b) He publishes a newspaper article.
(c) He electrocutes birds.
(d) He refers publicly to an electrocuted prisoner as being "Westinghoused."

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1915, who builds a radio station for the U.S. Naval Radio Service?

2. What name does Nikola Tesla call Marconi?

3. Who adores Nikola Tesla for his many charms?

4. In 1906, what type of model does Nikola Tesla build?

5. Where does Charles Batchelor encourage Nikola Tesla to go?

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