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

2. What is Nikola Tesla doing in Europe when he conceives the idea that man could produce electric storms?
(a) Roaming in his native mountains.
(b) Touring Zagreb.
(c) Visiting his mother's grave.
(d) Doing research in Budapest.

3. What company refuses to entertain any of Nikola Tesla's proposals in 1920?
(a) RCA.
(b) Edison Electric Company.
(c) The Westinghouse Company.
(d) General Electric Company.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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