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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, The Final Decades: Chapter 2, The Inventor's 60s.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the early 1900s, from what illness does Nikola Tesla suffer?
(a) Malaria.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Depression.
(d) Amnesia.

2. What does Dr. Eisenbud suggest about Nikola Tesla's mental condition?
(a) He is schizophrenic.
(b) He is psychotic.
(c) He is neurotic.
(d) He is obsessive compulsive.

3. What company refuses to entertain any of Nikola Tesla's proposals in 1920?
(a) General Electric Company.
(b) Edison Electric Company.
(c) The Westinghouse Company.
(d) RCA.

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

5. What is Nikola Tesla doing in Europe when he conceives the idea that man could produce electric storms?
(a) Visiting his mother's grave.
(b) Touring Zagreb.
(c) Doing research in Budapest.
(d) Roaming in his native mountains.

Short Answer Questions

1. What trait is suspected by some about Nikola Tesla during the Gilded Age?

2. What is rumored to have been developed in 1924 by Nikola Tesla?

3. In what year does the Great Depression begin?

4. In what year does Nikola Tesla describe in detail the principles of radio broadcasting?

5. To what group does Nikola Tesla give a lecture about mechanical electrical oscillators on August 25, 1893?

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