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

2. In what year is the Wardenclyffe tower blown up?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1916.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1915.

3. What trait is suspected by some about Nikola Tesla during the Gilded Age?
(a) He is a virgin.
(b) He is bipolar.
(c) He is a homosexual.
(d) He is passive aggressive.

4. In what 1896 publication is there speculation about Nikola Tesla's status with women?
(a) The New York Times.
(b) The Electrical Times.
(c) The Wall Street Journal.
(d) The Electrical Review.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What event takes Nikola Tesla away from radio research in 1893?

4. What is the location of the tower that Nikola Tesla builds for his experiment on Long Island?

5. In what city does Nikola Tesla give a lecture to the Institution of Electrical Engineers?

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