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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. Who funds Nikola Tesla's big Long Island experiment?
(a) Mark Twain.
(b) George Westinghouse.
(c) Robert Underwood Johnson.
(d) J. Pierpont Morgan.

2. In what year is the Wardenclyffe tower blown up?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1916.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1915.

3. What trait is suspected by some about Nikola Tesla during the Gilded Age?
(a) He is bipolar.
(b) He is a homosexual.
(c) He is a virgin.
(d) He is passive aggressive.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1927, who tries to help Nikola Tesla with the promotion of a scientific concept?

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

3. Whom does Lt. Hobson try to interest in robotry as a way to raise funds for Nikola Tesla?

4. For what publication does Nikola Tesla write about women's superiority?

5. In what decade is Prohibition enacted?

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