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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, The Final Decades: Chapter 3, Birthday Corks.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what device does Nikola Tesla achieve tensions of about one million volts?
(a) Spherical coil.
(b) Conical coil.
(c) Cylindrical coil.
(d) Linear coil.

2. How many volts are Nikola Tesla's coils producing when he asks Leonard Curtis to find him a new laboratory?
(a) 4,500,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 4,000,000.
(d) 3,500.

3. In what year does the Tesla Electric Company open?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1876.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1887.

4. 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 has a newspaper reporter write about them.
(b) He sends out letters to the scientists.
(c) He publishes articles in magazines.
(d) He conducts lectures with demonstrations.

5. How does George Scherff feel about Nikola Tesla?
(a) He feels nothing for him.
(b) He worships him.
(c) He feels sorry for him.
(d) He detests him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nikola Tesla do to the oscillator?

2. What professor finds Nikola Tesla's ideas "thermodynamically sound"?

3. Who contributed $30,000 toward the building of the new research station?

4. What is the Tesla coil?

5. What happens to patents filed by Nikola Tesla in 1922?

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