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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Tesla's Middle Years: Chapter 5, Radio & Age 50.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What name does Nikola Tesla call Marconi?
(a) Horse.
(b) Elephant.
(c) Donkey.
(d) Dog.

2. How does Nikola Tesla sometimes feel because he has not married?
(a) Happy.
(b) Elusive.
(c) Frustrated.
(d) Lonely.

3. Who adores Nikola Tesla for his many charms?
(a) The Thomas Commerfod Martins.
(b) The Thomas Edisons.
(c) The George Westinghouses.
(d) The Robert Underwood Johnsons.

4. What happens to horses when Nikola Tesla is running his Colorado Springs experiments?
(a) They starve.
(b) They die.
(c) They return to the barn.
(d) They go berserk, feeling shocks through their metal shoes.

5. In what year does Nikola Tesla go to work for Thomas Edison's subsidiary in Paris?
(a) 1880.
(b) 1881.
(c) 1883.
(d) 1882.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 13, what is the invention that most fascinates Nikola Tesla followers?

2. What does Nikola Tesla believe can be produced on Earth with an oscillator?

3. What system of Nikola Tesla's invention allows alternating current to be delivered?

4. For what type of transmission is Nikola Tesla's research a precursor in around 1895?

5. What does a group of men offer Tesla the opportunity to do?

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