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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. 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.

2. How does Nikola Tesla sometimes feel because he has not married?
(a) Happy.
(b) Frustrated.
(c) Lonely.
(d) Elusive.

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

4. Why does Nikola Tesla choose room 207 at the Alta Vista Hotel?
(a) The number 207 is divisible by three and one flight up.
(b) The number 207 reminds him of his mother.
(c) It has a window.
(d) It is the only room available.

5. In what field does Nikola Tesla pioneer inventions while the Nobel Prize goes to three others?
(a) Wireless technology.
(b) The transistor.
(c) Radar.
(d) The radio.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Nikola Tesla's laboratory in 1895?

2. In what year does the Tesla Electric Company open?

3. In what year is Yugoslavia formed?

4. For whom does Nikola Tesla say he will build a villa in New York City?

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

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