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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, The Final Decades: Chapter 5, Remnants.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who writes letters to Nikola Tesla from around the country, trying to encourage him about better health?
(a) Scherff.
(b) Katherine Johnson.
(c) George Westinghouse.
(d) Lt. Hobson.

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

3. What do scientists and engineers worldwide do for Nikola Tesla's 75th birthday?
(a) Publish his articles.
(b) Send gifts.
(c) Write letters and tributes.
(d) Attend his party.

4. How does George Scherff feel about Nikola Tesla?
(a) He detests him.
(b) He feels nothing for him.
(c) He feels sorry for him.
(d) He worships him.

5. What happens to horses when Nikola Tesla is running his Colorado Springs experiments?
(a) They starve.
(b) They return to the barn.
(c) They go berserk, feeling shocks through their metal shoes.
(d) They die.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 13, "Hurler of Lightning," to where does Nikola Tesla move in 1899?

2. Why does Nikola Tesla wish to reject the Edison Medal of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers?

3. Who funds Nikola Tesla's big Long Island experiment?

4. Why is Nikola Tesla's vacuum tube unsuitable for laboratory research?

5. Where does Charles Batchelor encourage Nikola Tesla to go?

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