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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 what year does Katherine Johnson die?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1928.

2. How is Nikola Tesla planning to use the Tesla turbine engine?
(a) To generate electricity.
(b) In a box-like flivver airplane.
(c) To create man-made lightning.
(d) For radio broadcasting.

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

4. Who arranges a party for Nikola Tesla's 75th birthday in 1931?
(a) Robert Underwood Johnson.
(b) Swezey.
(c) Scherff.
(d) His secretaries.

5. How does Thomas Edison use electrocution as a political weapon?
(a) He publishes a newspaper article.
(b) He sues Nikola Tesla for patent infringement.
(c) He electrocutes birds.
(d) He refers publicly to an electrocuted prisoner as being "Westinghoused."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nikola Tesla do to the oscillator?

2. How much capital funded the incorporation of the Tesla Ozone Company?

3. On what is Nikola Tesla working around the time of his 75th birthday?

4. Besides being an inventor, for what other role is Nikola Tesla known?

5. To which fellow New Yorker does Nikola Tesla pay back old debts?

(see the answer key)

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