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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. How does Nikola Tesla have photographs produced of the Colorado Springs lightning experiment?
(a) Using negatives.
(b) Using time exposures.
(c) Using plates.
(d) Using artistic enhancement.

2. Who uses Nikola Tesla's 1900 radio patent to signal the letter "S" across the Atlantic ocean?
(a) Westinghouse.
(b) Scherff.
(c) Marconi.
(d) Edison.

3. In what decade is Prohibition enacted?
(a) 1920s.
(b) 1900s.
(c) 1910s.
(d) 1930s.

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

5. in 1902, what engineer supports the work Nikola Tesla is doing?
(a) Thomas Edison.
(b) Fritz Lowenstein.
(c) Lord Kelvin.
(d) Julian Hawthorne.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr. Eisenbud suggest about Nikola Tesla's mental condition?

2. What trait is suspected by some about Nikola Tesla during the Gilded Age?

3. What event takes Nikola Tesla away from radio research in 1893?

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

5. In what year does the Great Depression begin?

(see the answer key)

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