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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Tesla's Middle Years: Chapter 2, Mars & Robots.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the year 1888, who buys Nikola Tesla's patents to use in his electric company?
(a) Mark Twain.
(b) George Westinghouse.
(c) Dr. B.A. Behrend.
(d) Thomas Edison.

2. Who helps to found the Tesla Society around 1956?
(a) Leland Anderson.
(b) Gano Dunn.
(c) D. McFarlan Moore.
(d) Louis Cohen.

3. What event takes Nikola Tesla away from radio research in 1893?
(a) A scientists' meeting in London.
(b) The Chicago World's Fair.
(c) A bad radio experiment.
(d) The World Congress.

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

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?
(a) Irene Curie.
(b) Thomas Edison.
(c) Vladimir Zworykin.
(d) Henri Becquerel.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Nikola Tesla doing in Europe when he conceives the idea that man could produce electric storms?

3. What does Nikola Tesla send through neighboring buildings?

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

5. What happens to Nikola Tesla's laboratory in 1895?

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