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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. 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) Nothing.
(d) It restores the generator to the line.

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

3. In 1906, what type of model does Nikola Tesla build?
(a) A magnesium copper lamp.
(b) A new AC dynamo.
(c) A new lightning machine.
(d) A bladeless turbine.

4. What accomplishment occurs at Niagara Falls in 1895?
(a) George Westinghouse begins a new company.
(b) Electrical lines are strung over the falls.
(c) Westinghouse is ready to deliver 15,000 horsepower of electricity.
(d) GE delivers electricity first.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who broadcasts voice and music programs in 1906 and 1907 based on Nikola Tesla's radio design and principles?

2. What profession does Nikola Tesla's father expect him to follow?

3. In what year does the U.S. Supreme Court strike down the Marconi Company patents for the invention of radio?

4. What major German invention in 1896 is most likely predated by Nikola Tesla's version?

5. Who later demonstrates the correctness of Nikola Tesla's theory of cosmic rays as high-energy subatomic particles that could make other substances radioactive?

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