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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 happens to Nikola Tesla's laboratory in 1895?
(a) It catches fire.
(b) It is robbed.
(c) It is made larger.
(d) It is raided by police.

2. In Chapter 13, what is the invention that most fascinates Nikola Tesla followers?
(a) The transmitter.
(b) The Copper Button Lamp.
(c) The remote controlled ship.
(d) The valve.

3. What is Nikola Tesla's first job accomplishment with Thomas Edison?
(a) He fixes a ship's lighting plant.
(b) He improves Edison's laboratory.
(c) He improves direct current.
(d) He invents new types of light bulbs.

4. Why does Nikola Tesla choose room 207 at the Alta Vista Hotel?
(a) It has a window.
(b) The number 207 reminds him of his mother.
(c) It is the only room available.
(d) The number 207 is divisible by three and one flight up.

5. Why are balloons ordered?
(a) To hoist stationary antennae into the air.
(b) To celebrate the completion of an experiment.
(c) For the enjoyment of local children.
(d) To anchor the equipment.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 10, "An Error of Judgment," to what does Nikola Tesla expose his head frequently?

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

4. In what year does Ernest Orlando Lawrence win a Nobel prize for the cyclotron, a precursor of which Nikola Tesla exhibited?

5. How does Thomas Edison use electrocution as a political weapon?

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