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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. Whom does Lt. Hobson try to interest in robotry as a way to raise funds for Nikola Tesla?
(a) The Marines.
(b) The Army.
(c) The Navy.
(d) The Coast Guard.

2. To what group does Nikola Tesla give a lecture about mechanical electrical oscillators on August 25, 1893?
(a) The United States Congress.
(b) The Electrical Congress.
(c) The International Congress.
(d) The engineers at the Chicago World's Fair.

3. 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) Visiting his mother's grave.
(d) Touring Zagreb.

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

5. In 1927, who tries to help Nikola Tesla with the promotion of a scientific concept?
(a) Francis A. Fitzgerald.
(b) Scherff.
(c) John Hays Hammond, Jr.
(d) Robert Underwood Johnson.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Nikola Tesla describe in detail the principles of radio broadcasting?

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

3. In what decade is Prohibition enacted?

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

5. Who backs out of his commitment for further investment in Wardenclyffe?

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