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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. At what game does Nikola Tesla become skilled?
(a) Polo.
(b) Billiards.
(c) Horseshoes.
(d) Chess.

2. What happens to the electric company generator when Nikola Tesla runs his experiment?
(a) It discharges and quits.
(b) It restores the generator to the line.
(c) Nothing.
(d) It knocks the generator off line and makes it burn.

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

4. What is Nikola Tesla's first two-way radio controlled object?
(a) Antenna.
(b) Car.
(c) Boat.
(d) Trolley.

5. To what author is Nikola Tesla introduced while ill as a child?
(a) Robert Browning.
(b) Herman Melville.
(c) Mark Twain.
(d) Robert Louis Stevenson.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what 1896 publication is there speculation about Nikola Tesla's status with women?

3. What system of Nikola Tesla's invention allows alternating current to be delivered?

4. With what device does Nikola Tesla achieve tensions of about one million volts?

5. In what field does Nikola Tesla pioneer inventions while the Nobel Prize goes to three others?

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