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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. At what game does Nikola Tesla become skilled?
(a) Polo.
(b) Chess.
(c) Billiards.
(d) Horseshoes.

2. Who later demonstrates the correctness of Nikola Tesla's theory of cosmic rays as high-energy subatomic particles that could make other substances radioactive?
(a) Vladimir Zworykin.
(b) Thomas Edison.
(c) Irene Curie.
(d) Henri Becquerel.

3. In what year does Nikola Tesla describe in detail the principles of radio broadcasting?
(a) 1895.
(b) 1891.
(c) 1893.
(d) 1890.

4. To which fellow New Yorker does Nikola Tesla pay back old debts?
(a) Thomas Edison.
(b) Robert Underwood Johnson.
(c) John Hays Hammond, Jr.
(d) George Westinghouse.

5. With what device does Nikola Tesla achieve tensions of about one million volts?
(a) Linear coil.
(b) Cylindrical coil.
(c) Spherical coil.
(d) Conical coil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of electrical service does Thomas Edison supply to people?

2. Where is the National Research Council formed?

3. What does Nikola Tesla invent that is used in Rahway, New Jersey?

4. In what year does Nikola Tesla go to work for Thomas Edison's subsidiary in Paris?

5. What does Thomas Edison do to try to quash the acquisition of Nikola Tesla's invention?

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