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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. What is being manufactured at Wardenclyffe?
(a) Medical coils.
(b) Lightning generators.
(c) Radios.
(d) Copper button lamps.

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

3. How does George Scherff feel about Nikola Tesla?
(a) He worships him.
(b) He feels nothing for him.
(c) He detests him.
(d) He feels sorry for him.

4. How many volts are Nikola Tesla's coils producing when he asks Leonard Curtis to find him a new laboratory?
(a) 3,500.
(b) 4,000,000.
(c) 4,500,000.
(d) 50,000.

5. In what year does Nikola Tesla finally sue Marconi?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1915.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Lt. Hobson try to interest in robotry as a way to raise funds for Nikola Tesla?

2. In 1915, who builds a radio station for the U.S. Naval Radio Service?

3. In what city does Nikola Tesla study after running out of funds for college?

4. With what device does Nikola Tesla achieve tensions of about one million volts?

5. Who uses Nikola Tesla's 1900 radio patent to signal the letter "S" across the Atlantic ocean?

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