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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. For what does Nikola offer a plan to redesign for Edison?
(a) The electric light bulb.
(b) His direct current laboratory.
(c) Electrical systems for ships.
(d) His dynamos.

2. In what year does the U.S. Supreme Court strike down the Marconi Company patents for the invention of radio?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1950.

3. For what purpose does Nikola Tesla propose the use of radar?
(a) To set a sighting on a ship.
(b) To monitor automobile traffic.
(c) To locate a hidden submarine.
(d) To pinpoint where airplanes are in the sky.

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

5. In what country is Nikola Tesla born?
(a) Hungary.
(b) Romania.
(c) Serbia.
(d) Croatia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what city does Nikola Tesla find a job in 1881?

3. In the early 1900s, from what illness does Nikola Tesla suffer?

4. To which fellow New Yorker does Nikola Tesla pay back old debts?

5. In what year does the Great Depression begin?

(see the answer key)

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