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

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

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

4. By 1981, how many patents does Nikola Tesla get for AC electric systems?
(a) 40.
(b) 45.
(c) 50.
(d) 35.

5. What type of motor does Nikola Tesla conceive of while walking in the park?
(a) A gas powered motor.
(b) An AC motor.
(c) A DC motor.
(d) A pulley motor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of engine does Nikola Tesla invent in Chapter 12, "Robots"?

2. What happens when Nikola Tesla visits an official in Washington to offer a robotic invention to the government?

3. For whom does Nikola Tesla say he will build a villa in New York City?

4. What is Nikola Tesla doing in Europe when he conceives the idea that man could produce electric storms?

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

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