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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, The Beginning: Chapter 3, AC/DC and a Flaming Sword.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What science is always at the forefront of Nikola Tesla's work?
(a) Physics.
(b) Nuclear fission.
(c) Thermodynamics.
(d) Electricity.

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

3. In what year does Nikola Tesla go to work for Thomas Edison's subsidiary in Paris?
(a) 1883.
(b) 1880.
(c) 1881.
(d) 1882.

4. What does Nikola Tesla invent that is used in Rahway, New Jersey?
(a) A new generator.
(b) The Tesla arc lamp.
(c) A DC motor.
(d) A new light bulb.

5. What does Nikola Tesla ask Westinghouse to do with their royalties agreement?
(a) Split it.
(b) Double the value.
(c) Sell it.
(d) Tear it up.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nikola Tesla demonstrate with thousands of high-frequency volts running through his body?

2. For what does Nikola offer a plan to redesign for Edison?

3. What does a group of men offer Tesla the opportunity to do?

4. What is Nikola Tesla's first job accomplishment with Thomas Edison?

5. Who later demonstrates the correctness of Nikola Tesla's theory of cosmic rays as high-energy subatomic particles that could make other substances radioactive?

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