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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 New York establishment drops Nikola Tesla's membership for non-payment of bills?
(a) The Russian Tea Room.
(b) The Palms.
(c) The Regency Room.
(d) The Players' Club.

2. In the early 1900s, from what illness does Nikola Tesla suffer?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Depression.
(d) Amnesia.

3. With what bird is Nikola Tesla enamored?
(a) Blue jay.
(b) Robin.
(c) Swallow.
(d) Pigeon.

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

5. What system of Nikola Tesla's invention allows alternating current to be delivered?
(a) Fluorescent bulb system.
(b) Polyphase system.
(c) DC system.
(d) Voltage system.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Nikola Tesla do to the oscillator?

3. What is being manufactured at Wardenclyffe?

4. In what city does Nikola Tesla give a lecture to the Institution of Electrical Engineers?

5. In Chapter 13, what is the invention that most fascinates Nikola Tesla followers?

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