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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. Who contributed $30,000 toward the building of the new research station?
(a) Leonard Curtis.
(b) Simpson and Crawford.
(c) Robert Underwood Johnson.
(d) John Jacob Astor.

2. Why is Nikola Tesla's vacuum tube unsuitable for laboratory research?
(a) It is too expensive.
(b) It is too large.
(c) It is difficult to adjust.
(d) It is too small.

3. In what year does Nikola Tesla file a patent to describe the supercooling of conductors to appreciably lower resistance?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1901.

4. In 1915, who builds a radio station for the U.S. Naval Radio Service?
(a) A German firm.
(b) A French firm.
(c) A British firm.
(d) A Serbian firm.

5. To what author is Nikola Tesla introduced while ill as a child?
(a) Herman Melville.
(b) Robert Browning.
(c) Robert Louis Stevenson.
(d) Mark Twain.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what field does Nikola Tesla pioneer inventions while the Nobel Prize goes to three others?

2. To where does Nikola Tesla begin to write letters at age fifty?

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

4. What does a group of men offer Tesla the opportunity to do?

5. Where are the plans for Nikola Tesla's "aeromobile"?

(see the answer key)

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