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

2. What is the name of the lamp that Nikola Tesla invents?
(a) Carbon-button lamp.
(b) Zirconia-button lamp.
(c) Ruby-button lamp.
(d) Diamond-button lamp.

3. In what year does the Luftwaffe bomb Belgrade?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1942.

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

5. What magazine carries two of Nikola Tesla's designs: extracting electricity from seawater and plans for a geothermal steam plant?
(a) Discovery.
(b) Scientific American.
(c) Everyday Science & Mechanics.
(d) Popular Science.

Short Answer Questions

1. What physicist has followed up on Nikola Tesla's lightning inventions?

2. How is Nikola Tesla planning to use the Tesla turbine engine?

3. Why does Nikola Tesla ignore the NRC mission of finding a way to detect U-Boats?

4. On what invention does Nikola Tesla claim he is working?

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

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