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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 does a group of men offer Tesla the opportunity to do?
(a) Travel in Europe.
(b) Invest in other businesses.
(c) Buy Thomas Edison's company.
(d) Form his own company.

2. In what country is Nikola Tesla born?
(a) Hungary.
(b) Romania.
(c) Croatia.
(d) Serbia.

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

4. How does Thomas Edison use electrocution as a political weapon?
(a) He refers publicly to an electrocuted prisoner as being "Westinghoused."
(b) He sues Nikola Tesla for patent infringement.
(c) He electrocutes birds.
(d) He publishes a newspaper article.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city does Nikola Tesla give a lecture to the Institution of Electrical Engineers?

2. In the early 1900s, from what illness does Nikola Tesla suffer?

3. Who adores Nikola Tesla for his many charms?

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

5. What major German invention in 1896 is most likely predated by Nikola Tesla's version?

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