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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. What hotel is Nikola Tesla told to vacate in part because of his birds?
(a) The Waldorf.
(b) The Park.
(c) The St. Regis.
(d) The Regency.

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

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

4. In what year does Nikola Tesla file a patent to describe the supercooling of conductors to appreciably lower resistance?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1899.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is writer Kenneth M. Swezey when he arrives in New York City?

2. How tall is Nikola Tesla in the year 1893?

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

4. For whom does Nikola Tesla say he will build a villa in New York City?

5. Whom does Lt. Hobson try to interest in robotry as a way to raise funds for Nikola Tesla?

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