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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. 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.

2. What hotel is Nikola Tesla told to vacate in part because of his birds?
(a) The Waldorf.
(b) The Park.
(c) The St. Regis.
(d) The Regency.

3. For what publication does Nikola Tesla write about women's superiority?
(a) Fortune.
(b) Colliers.
(c) The Harvard Review.
(d) The New Yorker.

4. In what year does Ernest Orlando Lawrence win a Nobel prize for the cyclotron, a precursor of which Nikola Tesla exhibited?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1940.

5. In Chapter 13, "Hurler of Lightning," to where does Nikola Tesla move in 1899?
(a) Phoenix.
(b) Colorado Springs.
(c) Boise.
(d) Denver.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Besides being an inventor, for what other role is Nikola Tesla known?

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

4. How old is writer Kenneth M. Swezey when he arrives in New York City?

5. What is Nikola Tesla doing in Europe when he conceives the idea that man could produce electric storms?

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