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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 event takes Nikola Tesla away from radio research in 1893?
(a) A scientists' meeting in London.
(b) The World Congress.
(c) A bad radio experiment.
(d) The Chicago World's Fair.

2. What science is always at the forefront of Nikola Tesla's work?
(a) Nuclear fission.
(b) Physics.
(c) Electricity.
(d) Thermodynamics.

3. In what year does the Tesla Electric Company open?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1876.
(c) 1887.
(d) 1900.

4. How much does Nikola Tesla's 1906 invention weigh?
(a) Less than 20 pounds.
(b) 30 pounds.
(c) Less than 10 pounds.
(d) Between 30 and 40 pounds.

5. To what group does Nikola Tesla give a lecture about mechanical electrical oscillators on August 25, 1893?
(a) The engineers at the Chicago World's Fair.
(b) The Electrical Congress.
(c) The United States Congress.
(d) The International Congress.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Nikola Tesla go to work for Thomas Edison's subsidiary in Paris?

2. In what year is Nikola Tesla born?

3. What New York establishment drops Nikola Tesla's membership for non-payment of bills?

4. With whom does the New York Times suggest that Nikola Tesla will share the 1915 Nobel Prize in physics?

5. Why are balloons ordered?

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