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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Tesla's Middle Years: Chapter 6, Nobel Stove.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the electric company generator when Nikola Tesla runs his experiment?
(a) It discharges and quits.
(b) It knocks the generator off line and makes it burn.
(c) It restores the generator to the line.
(d) Nothing.

2. In what 1896 publication is there speculation about Nikola Tesla's status with women?
(a) The Electrical Review.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) The Wall Street Journal.
(d) The Electrical Times.

3. In what year does the Tesla Electric Company open?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1887.
(c) 1888.
(d) 1900.

4. What is being manufactured at Wardenclyffe?
(a) Lightning generators.
(b) Copper button lamps.
(c) Medical coils.
(d) Radios.

5. What does Nikola Tesla do to the oscillator?
(a) Smashes it.
(b) Turns it up.
(c) Oils it.
(d) Turns it off.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Nikola Tesla visits an official in Washington to offer a robotic invention to the government?

2. In 1906, what type of model does Nikola Tesla build?

3. About what do Nikola Tesla and John Hays Hammond Jr. correspond?

4. Who adores Nikola Tesla for his many charms?

5. Why are balloons ordered?

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