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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Tesla's Middle Years: Chapter 6, Nobel Stove.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what financier does Nikola Tesla choose NOT to accept funds?
(a) Robert Underwood Johnson.
(b) George Westinghouse.
(c) Thomas Edison.
(d) J. Pierpont Morgan.

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

3. After Mark Twain and J. Pierpont Morgan die, what happens to Nikola Tesla's behavior?
(a) It becomes stranger.
(b) It becomes more upbeat.
(c) It becomes erratic.
(d) It becomes depressing.

4. In the early 1900s, from what illness does Nikola Tesla suffer?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Depression.
(d) Amnesia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the Palm Room?

2. What does Nikola Tesla invent that is used in Rahway, New Jersey?

3. To what group does Nikola Tesla give a lecture about mechanical electrical oscillators on August 25, 1893?

4. In what year is Nikola Tesla born?

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

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