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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. Besides being an inventor, for what other role is Nikola Tesla known?
(a) Financier.
(b) Publicist.
(c) Writer.
(d) Teacher.

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) Doing research in Budapest.
(c) Touring Zagreb.
(d) Visiting his mother's grave.

3. What science is always at the forefront of Nikola Tesla's work?
(a) Physics.
(b) Thermodynamics.
(c) Electricity.
(d) Nuclear fission.

4. In what year does the U.S. Supreme Court strike down the Marconi Company patents for the invention of radio?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1943.

5. In the year 1888, who buys Nikola Tesla's patents to use in his electric company?
(a) Dr. B.A. Behrend.
(b) George Westinghouse.
(c) Mark Twain.
(d) Thomas Edison.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what patent does Nikola Tesla file in 1898?

2. Who writes letters to Nikola Tesla from around the country, trying to encourage him about better health?

3. How does Nikola Tesla feel when he sees his experiment in progress?

4. What is Nikola Tesla's first two-way radio controlled object?

5. What happens to horses when Nikola Tesla is running his Colorado Springs experiments?

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