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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 Nikola Tesla send through neighboring buildings?
(a) Radiation.
(b) Vibrations.
(c) Electricity.
(d) Water.

2. 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) Thomas Edison.
(b) Irene Curie.
(c) Vladimir Zworykin.
(d) Henri Becquerel.

3. In what field does Nikola Tesla pioneer inventions while the Nobel Prize goes to three others?
(a) The transistor.
(b) Wireless technology.
(c) Radar.
(d) The radio.

4. Whom does Nikola Tesla invite to a celebration at the Waldorf in 1898?
(a) The Johnsons.
(b) Marguerite.
(c) The Westinghouses.
(d) The Edisons.

5. When the vibration of heavy current surges through the primary coil, what phenomenon is the result?
(a) Earthquake.
(b) Lightning.
(c) Thunder.
(d) Windstorm.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What event takes Nikola Tesla away from radio research in 1893?

3. In the early 1900s, from what illness does Nikola Tesla suffer?

4. Who contributed $30,000 toward the building of the new research station?

5. At what game does Nikola Tesla become skilled?

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