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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. What does Nikola Tesla ask Westinghouse to do with their royalties agreement?
(a) Split it.
(b) Tear it up.
(c) Double the value.
(d) Sell it.

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

3. Where is the Palm Room?
(a) In the Hyatt Regency Hotel.
(b) In the Plaza Hotel.
(c) In the St. Regis Hotel.
(d) In the Waldorf Astoria Hotel.

4. For what patent does Nikola Tesla file in 1898?
(a) Radio remote control for use in guided vehicles.
(b) Radio remote control for use in his laboratory.
(c) Radio transistors.
(d) An alternating current engine for an automobile.

5. What is George Sylvester Viereck's vocation?
(a) A politician.
(b) A scientist.
(c) An engineer.
(d) A poet.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year is Nikola Tesla born?

2. What professor finds Nikola Tesla's ideas "thermodynamically sound"?

3. In what 1896 publication is there speculation about Nikola Tesla's status with women?

4. What is rumored to have been developed in 1924 by Nikola Tesla?

5. Who is accused of burglary of Nikola Tesla's papers?

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