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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. In the year 1888, who buys Nikola Tesla's patents to use in his electric company?
(a) Thomas Edison.
(b) George Westinghouse.
(c) Dr. B.A. Behrend.
(d) Mark Twain.

2. Why is Nikola Tesla's vacuum tube unsuitable for laboratory research?
(a) It is too small.
(b) It is too large.
(c) It is difficult to adjust.
(d) It is too expensive.

3. Where does Nikola Tesla maintain a laboratory for turbine work?
(a) Bridgeport, Connecticut.
(b) Chicago, Illinois.
(c) Newark, New Jersey.
(d) New York, New York.

4. In what year do Nikola Tesla's friends Hobson and Johnson die?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1934.

5. in 1902, what engineer supports the work Nikola Tesla is doing?
(a) Julian Hawthorne.
(b) Lord Kelvin.
(c) Thomas Edison.
(d) Fritz Lowenstein.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Nikola Tesla's first two-way radio controlled object?

2. Why does Nikola Tesla wish to reject the Edison Medal of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers?

3. In what year is Nikola Tesla summoned to court for failure to pay his takes in New York City?

4. To what group does Nikola Tesla give a lecture about mechanical electrical oscillators on August 25, 1893?

5. What does Dr. Eisenbud suggest about Nikola Tesla's mental condition?

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