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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. In what year is Nikola Tesla born?
(a) 1857.
(b) 1856.
(c) 1854.
(d) 1855.

2. What type of motor does Nikola Tesla conceive of while walking in the park?
(a) A DC motor.
(b) A pulley motor.
(c) An AC motor.
(d) A gas powered motor.

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

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

5. What happens to Nikola Tesla when he steps onto his experimental platform in his laboratory?
(a) He is fine.
(b) He is burned.
(c) He shudders.
(d) He loses consciousness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of electrical service does Thomas Edison supply to people?

2. How does Thomas Edison use electrocution as a political weapon?

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

4. In what year does Ernest Orlando Lawrence win a Nobel prize for the cyclotron, a precursor of which Nikola Tesla exhibited?

5. In the year 1888, who buys Nikola Tesla's patents to use in his electric company?

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