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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Whom did Charles Batchellor work for?
(a) Mr. Puskas.
(b) Henry Ford.
(c) Thomas Edison.
(d) Nikola Tesla.
2. What did Tesla compare the field of his transmitter to?
(a) Wires.
(b) Air streams.
(c) Bubbles.
(d) Clouds.
3. What did Tesla never strive to do with his inventions?
(a) Replace old inventions.
(b) Make himself famous.
(c) Accept all credit.
(d) Take away from mankind.
4. Where in Germany was Tesla sent while working in Paris?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Munich.
(c) Waldorf.
(d) Strassburg.
5. How big did Tesla say the field from his transmitter could be?
(a) Global.
(b) Up to one mile.
(c) Up to one thousand feet.
(d) National.
6. What did Tesla call his remote controlled technology?
(a) Robotic computation.
(b) Remote access pneumology.
(c) Teleautomatics.
(d) Wireless Control.
7. Whom did Tesla defend at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) J.P. Morgan.
(b) The media men.
(c) His partner.
(d) Edison.
8. What did Tesla hope to transmit?
(a) All of these.
(b) Images.
(c) Sounds.
(d) Locations.
9. Why did Tesla quit working for Edison?
(a) There was a dispute over pay.
(b) Edison refused to see Tesla's induction motor idea.
(c) Tesla insulted him.
(d) Edison insulted Tesla.
10. What did Tesla help Edison produce?
(a) Electric motors.
(b) Telephone wires.
(c) Light bulb fillaments.
(d) Telephone receivers.
11. Which of these did Telsa hope his transmitter could control?
(a) The water levels.
(b) The economy.
(c) The weather.
(d) The earth's temperature.
12. What did Tesla say inspired his earlier inventions?
(a) Lectures from his father.
(b) Old paintings.
(c) Dreams.
(d) Existing devices.
13. What did Tesla predict for the future at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) He would be heralded as a great man.
(b) His invention would die with him.
(c) His invention would one day be used.
(d) He would back his own project.
14. What was Mr. Puskas's occupation?
(a) Financier.
(b) Artist.
(c) Architect.
(d) Doctor.
15. What kind of machine did Tesla plan to one day make without a rotor?
(a) A weather predicting machine.
(b) A communication machine.
(c) A farming machine.
(d) A flying machine.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Tesla construct while he was in Germany?
2. Where did Tesla go after finishing his first transmitter?
3. What was Tesla's next step in development after the remote control technology came about?
4. What had just ended when Tesla was writing this book?
5. What did Tesla say would end all wars?
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