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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Tesla's Middle Years: Chapter 1, Ethics & Error in Tesla's Path.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What system of Nikola Tesla's invention allows alternating current to be delivered?
(a) Fluorescent bulb system.
(b) Voltage system.
(c) DC system.
(d) Polyphase system.

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

3. In Chapter 6, "Order of the Flaming Sword," how does Nikola Tesla share his inventions of electricity in a vacuum tube with other scientists?
(a) He publishes articles in magazines.
(b) He conducts lectures with demonstrations.
(c) He sends out letters to the scientists.
(d) He has a newspaper reporter write about them.

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

5. After World War II, much of Nikola Tesla's library materials are shipped where?
(a) Paris, France.
(b) Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
(c) Washington, D.C.
(d) London, England.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Nikola Tesla go to work for Thomas Edison's subsidiary in Paris?

2. What reward does Thomas Edison offer Nikola Tesla for completing the work with the dynamo?

3. What accomplishment occurs at Niagara Falls in 1895?

4. In what subject does Nikola Tesla excel in high school?

5. In the early 1900s, from what illness does Nikola Tesla suffer?

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