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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) Depression.
(b) Amnesia.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Pneumonia.

2. In what decade is Prohibition enacted?
(a) 1910s.
(b) 1920s.
(c) 1930s.
(d) 1900s.

3. Who uses Nikola Tesla's 1900 radio patent to signal the letter "S" across the Atlantic ocean?
(a) Scherff.
(b) Edison.
(c) Westinghouse.
(d) Marconi.

4. For what experiment does Nikola Tesla solicit funding in New York in 1900?
(a) A new oscillator.
(b) A new carbon button lamp.
(c) Telegraphic communication to any point on the globe.
(d) A lightning generator.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What company refuses to entertain any of Nikola Tesla's proposals in 1920?

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

3. For what publication does Nikola Tesla write about women's superiority?

4. In 1927, who tries to help Nikola Tesla with the promotion of a scientific concept?

5. What happens to patents filed by Nikola Tesla in 1922?

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