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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. How tall is Nikola Tesla in the year 1893?
(a) Six feet four inches.
(b) Five feet two inches.
(c) Six feet.
(d) Six feet six inches.

2. How tall is Nikola Tesla in the year 1893?
(a) Six feet six inches.
(b) Six feet.
(c) Five feet two inches.
(d) Six feet four inches.

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

4. How old is writer Kenneth M. Swezey when he arrives in New York City?
(a) 15.
(b) 19.
(c) 20.
(d) 24.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What hotel is Nikola Tesla told to vacate in part because of his birds?

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

4. With what bird is Nikola Tesla enamored?

5. In what decade is Prohibition enacted?

(see the answer key)

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