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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. What does a group of men offer Tesla the opportunity to do?
(a) Travel in Europe.
(b) Buy Thomas Edison's company.
(c) Form his own company.
(d) Invest in other businesses.

2. In Chapter 13, what is the invention that most fascinates Nikola Tesla followers?
(a) The remote controlled ship.
(b) The Copper Button Lamp.
(c) The transmitter.
(d) The valve.

3. What is being manufactured at Wardenclyffe?
(a) Medical coils.
(b) Copper button lamps.
(c) Lightning generators.
(d) Radios.

4. What does Nikola Tesla do to the oscillator?
(a) Smashes it.
(b) Turns it up.
(c) Oils it.
(d) Turns it off.

5. What accomplishment occurs at Niagara Falls in 1895?
(a) Electrical lines are strung over the falls.
(b) George Westinghouse begins a new company.
(c) Westinghouse is ready to deliver 15,000 horsepower of electricity.
(d) GE delivers electricity first.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what invention is the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics given?

2. Who adores Nikola Tesla for his many charms?

3. For what purpose does Nikola Tesla propose the use of radar?

4. In what year is the Wardenclyffe tower blown up?

5. What does Nikola Tesla believe can be produced on Earth with an oscillator?

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