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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Tesla's Middle Years: Chapter 2, Mars & Robots.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what city does Nikola Tesla find a job in 1881?
(a) Munich.
(b) Vienna.
(c) Prague.
(d) Budapest.

2. In what year does Ernest Orlando Lawrence win a Nobel prize for the cyclotron, a precursor of which Nikola Tesla exhibited?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1940.

3. In Chapter 10, "An Error of Judgment," to what does Nikola Tesla expose his head frequently?
(a) Radiation.
(b) Radio waves.
(c) Sun.
(d) Atoms.

4. For what type of transmission is Nikola Tesla's research a precursor in around 1895?
(a) Convection.
(b) Radio wave.
(c) Electromechanical.
(d) Microwave.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does the Tesla Electric Company open?

2. To what author is Nikola Tesla introduced while ill as a child?

3. In what 1896 publication is there speculation about Nikola Tesla's status with women?

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

5. How tall is Nikola Tesla in the year 1893?

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