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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 city does Nikola Tesla find a job in 1881?
(a) Munich.
(b) Prague.
(c) Vienna.
(d) Budapest.

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

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

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

5. For what does Nikola offer a plan to redesign for Edison?
(a) Electrical systems for ships.
(b) His direct current laboratory.
(c) His dynamos.
(d) The electric light bulb.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does the Tesla Electric Company open?

2. What does Nikola Tesla ask Westinghouse to do with their royalties agreement?

3. What does Thomas Edison do to try to quash the acquisition of Nikola Tesla's invention?

4. Whom does Nikola Tesla invite to his laboratory at midnight to view his experiments?

5. At what game does Nikola Tesla become skilled?

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