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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Tesla's Middle Years: Chapter 3, Playing with Lightning.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who contributed $30,000 toward the building of the new research station?
(a) Robert Underwood Johnson.
(b) Leonard Curtis.
(c) John Jacob Astor.
(d) Simpson and Crawford.

2. In the early 1900s, from what illness does Nikola Tesla suffer?
(a) Depression.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Amnesia.

3. What type of engine does Nikola Tesla invent in Chapter 12, "Robots"?
(a) A water engine.
(b) A vacuum engine.
(c) A steam driven engine.
(d) A solar engine.

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

5. In what field does Nikola Tesla pioneer inventions while the Nobel Prize goes to three others?
(a) Wireless technology.
(b) Radar.
(c) The radio.
(d) The transistor.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens to the electric company generator when Nikola Tesla runs his experiment?

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

4. When does Nikola Tesla perform a major experiment in his Colorado Springs laboratory?

5. What is Nikola Tesla's first two-way radio controlled object?

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