View a FREE sample

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. With whom does the New York Times suggest that Nikola Tesla will share the 1915 Nobel Prize in physics?
(a) John Hays Hammond, Jr.
(b) Scherff.
(c) George Westinghouse.
(d) Thomas Edison.

2. How tall is Nikola Tesla in the year 1893?
(a) Six feet six inches.
(b) Six feet.
(c) Six feet four inches.
(d) Five feet two inches.

3. What happens to the electric company generator when Nikola Tesla runs his experiment?
(a) It restores the generator to the line.
(b) It knocks the generator off line and makes it burn.
(c) Nothing.
(d) It discharges and quits.

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

5. In 1927, who tries to help Nikola Tesla with the promotion of a scientific concept?
(a) Scherff.
(b) Robert Underwood Johnson.
(c) John Hays Hammond, Jr.
(d) Francis A. Fitzgerald.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city does Nikola Tesla study after running out of funds for college?

2. Where does Nikola Tesla maintain a laboratory for turbine work?

3. How does Thomas Edison use electrocution as a political weapon?

4. In what year does Ernest Orlando Lawrence win a Nobel prize for the cyclotron, a precursor of which Nikola Tesla exhibited?

5. At what game does Nikola Tesla become skilled?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 231 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample