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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. What trait is suspected by some about Nikola Tesla during the Gilded Age?
(a) He is a homosexual.
(b) He is a virgin.
(c) He is passive aggressive.
(d) He is bipolar.

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

3. What type of electrical service does Thomas Edison supply to people?
(a) Alternating current.
(b) Hydroelectric current.
(c) Indirect current.
(d) Direct current.

4. How many volts are Nikola Tesla's coils producing when he asks Leonard Curtis to find him a new laboratory?
(a) 50,000.
(b) 4,000,000.
(c) 4,500,000.
(d) 3,500.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Nikola Tesla's vacuum tube unsuitable for laboratory research?

2. To what author is Nikola Tesla introduced while ill as a child?

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. What happens when Nikola Tesla visits an official in Washington to offer a robotic invention to the government?

5. What reward does Thomas Edison offer Nikola Tesla for completing the work with the dynamo?

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