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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, The Beginning: Chapter 4, Radio & High Society.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Nikola Tesla when he steps onto his experimental platform in his laboratory?
(a) He loses consciousness.
(b) He is burned.
(c) He shudders.
(d) He is fine.

2. What is Nikola Tesla's first job accomplishment with Thomas Edison?
(a) He invents new types of light bulbs.
(b) He improves Edison's laboratory.
(c) He improves direct current.
(d) He fixes a ship's lighting plant.

3. In what year does Nikola Tesla describe in detail the principles of radio broadcasting?
(a) 1893.
(b) 1891.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1895.

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

5. In what year does Nikola Tesla go to work for Thomas Edison's subsidiary in Paris?
(a) 1881.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1880.
(d) 1883.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Thomas Edison use electrocution as a political weapon?

2. In what year does Ernest Orlando Lawrence win a Nobel prize for the cyclotron, a precursor of which Nikola Tesla exhibited?

3. At what age does Nikola Tesla take passage on the ship Saturnia?

4. In what city does Nikola Tesla give a lecture to the Institution of Electrical Engineers?

5. What science is always at the forefront of Nikola Tesla's work?

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