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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. What personality difference jeopardizes the relationship between Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla?
(a) They solve problems differently.
(b) They have different religious beliefs.
(c) They have different schedules.
(d) They have different hygiene.

2. What does Thomas Edison do to try to quash the acquisition of Nikola Tesla's invention?
(a) He meets with George Westinghouse.
(b) He conducts a smear campaign against Westinghouse and alternating current.
(c) He buys out Nikola Tesla.
(d) He offers Tesla stock in his company.

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

4. How does Nikola Tesla sometimes feel because he has not married?
(a) Elusive.
(b) Happy.
(c) Lonely.
(d) Frustrated.

5. At what age does Nikola Tesla take passage on the ship Saturnia?
(a) 24.
(b) 29.
(c) 26.
(d) 28.

Short Answer Questions

1. What trait is suspected by some about Nikola Tesla during the Gilded Age?

2. Who helps to found the Tesla Society around 1956?

3. In what year is Nikola Tesla born?

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

5. To what group does Nikola Tesla give a lecture about mechanical electrical oscillators on August 25, 1893?

(see the answer key)

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