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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, The Final Decades: Chapter 2, The Inventor's 60s.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who broadcasts voice and music programs in 1906 and 1907 based on Nikola Tesla's radio design and principles?
(a) Robert Underwood Johnson.
(b) William Marconi.
(c) Professor Pupin.
(d) Reginald A. Fessenden.

2. For what patent does Nikola Tesla file in 1898?
(a) Radio transistors.
(b) Radio remote control for use in his laboratory.
(c) An alternating current engine for an automobile.
(d) Radio remote control for use in guided vehicles.

3. What does Nikola Tesla do to the oscillator?
(a) Turns it up.
(b) Turns it off.
(c) Oils it.
(d) Smashes it.

4. What happens to patents filed by Nikola Tesla in 1922?
(a) They are used in his current invention projects.
(b) They are all completed.
(c) They are stolen by competitors.
(d) They enter the common domain because they are not completed.

5. How old is writer Kenneth M. Swezey when he arrives in New York City?
(a) 19.
(b) 20.
(c) 15.
(d) 24.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who backs out of his commitment for further investment in Wardenclyffe?

2. Why does Nikola Tesla ignore the NRC mission of finding a way to detect U-Boats?

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

4. When the vibration of heavy current surges through the primary coil, what phenomenon is the result?

5. In what year does Nikola Tesla file a patent to describe the supercooling of conductors to appreciably lower resistance?

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