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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. For whom does Nikola Tesla say he will build a villa in New York City?
(a) Ann Morgan.
(b) Nellie Melba.
(c) Katherine Johnson.
(d) Marguerite Merington.

2. In what year does Ernest Orlando Lawrence win a Nobel prize for the cyclotron, a precursor of which Nikola Tesla exhibited?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1940.

3. How many accidents does Nikola Tesla say he has in a year?
(a) One.
(b) Six.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

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

5. At what age does Nikola Tesla take passage on the ship Saturnia?
(a) 29.
(b) 26.
(c) 24.
(d) 28.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Nikola Tesla spend time feeding pigeons?

2. In what decade is Prohibition enacted?

3. In what year do Nikola Tesla's friends Hobson and Johnson die?

4. What personality difference jeopardizes the relationship between Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla?

5. What is the Tesla coil?

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