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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. What is the Tesla coil?
(a) A high frequency transmitter.
(b) A vacuum tube.
(c) A radio wave.
(d) An electromagnetic force.

2. What is Nikola Tesla doing in Europe when he conceives the idea that man could produce electric storms?
(a) Roaming in his native mountains.
(b) Visiting his mother's grave.
(c) Doing research in Budapest.
(d) Touring Zagreb.

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

4. For what type of transmission is Nikola Tesla's research a precursor in around 1895?
(a) Radio wave.
(b) Microwave.
(c) Electromechanical.
(d) Convection.

5. On what does Nikola Tesla say that civilized nations would spend more on than war?
(a) Health.
(b) Education.
(c) Agriculture.
(d) Politics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Nikola Tesla go to create new inventions right after the Edison Medal event?

2. In Chapter 6, "Order of the Flaming Sword," how does Nikola Tesla share his inventions of electricity in a vacuum tube with other scientists?

3. How does Nikola Tesla sometimes feel because he has not married?

4. Who tries to learn the secret of animosity between Nikola Tesla and professor Pupin?

5. How much does Nikola Tesla's 1906 invention weigh?

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