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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. Whom does Nikola Tesla invite to his laboratory at midnight to view his experiments?
(a) Mark Twain.
(b) William K. Vanderbuilt.
(c) Marguerite Merrington.
(d) Robert Underwood Johnson.

2. In what year does Ernest Orlando Lawrence win a Nobel prize for the cyclotron, a precursor of which Nikola Tesla exhibited?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1936.

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

4. For what patent does Nikola Tesla file in 1898?
(a) Radio remote control for use in his laboratory.
(b) Radio remote control for use in guided vehicles.
(c) Radio transistors.
(d) An alternating current engine for an automobile.

5. Who later demonstrates the correctness of Nikola Tesla's theory of cosmic rays as high-energy subatomic particles that could make other substances radioactive?
(a) Irene Curie.
(b) Thomas Edison.
(c) Henri Becquerel.
(d) Vladimir Zworykin.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many accidents does Nikola Tesla say he has in a year?

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

3. What does Nikola Tesla send through neighboring buildings?

4. At what game does Nikola Tesla become skilled?

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

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