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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 happens to patents filed by Nikola Tesla in 1922?
(a) They are stolen by competitors.
(b) They are used in his current invention projects.
(c) They are all completed.
(d) They enter the common domain because they are not completed.

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

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

4. For what publication does Nikola Tesla write about women's superiority?
(a) Colliers.
(b) The Harvard Review.
(c) Fortune.
(d) The New Yorker.

5. With what bird is Nikola Tesla enamored?
(a) Blue jay.
(b) Swallow.
(c) Pigeon.
(d) Robin.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what decade is Prohibition enacted?

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

4. In what year does Nikola Tesla file a patent to describe the supercooling of conductors to appreciably lower resistance?

5. How does Nikola Tesla have photographs produced of the Colorado Springs lightning experiment?

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