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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What trick did Tesla once play on his friends?
(a) He cut their hair.
(b) He pretended to drown.
(c) He put salt in their sugar.
(d) He pretended to be crazy.

2. How did Tesla save himself when he almost drowned?
(a) He allowed himself to float with the waves.
(b) He breathed between the dock slats.
(c) He followed the directions of his voices.
(d) He used the air bubbles in his pockets.

3. What did Tesla compare the human mind to?
(a) A computer.
(b) A machine.
(c) A bowl of water.
(d) An electrical current.

4. What did Tesla want to become after going to the higher school?
(a) A writer.
(b) An engineer.
(c) A professor.
(d) A clergyman.

5. What was the occupation of Tesla's uncle?
(a) Driver.
(b) Plumber.
(c) Priest.
(d) Teacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. What smell did Tesla hate?

2. Why did Tesla think people should have free access to addictive substances?

3. Why did Tesla suppress a talent at a young age?

4. What kind of jewelry did Tesla hate?

5. What did Tesla think inventions should improve?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Tesla able to catch crows?

2. How and where did Tesla get his first job?

3. What did Tesla do in response to the death of his brother?

4. What did Tesla do to the fire engine that Gospic got?

5. What was Tesla doing when he made his motor breakthrough?

6. What did Tesla choose to work on after he recovered from his breakdown in Prague?

7. What did Tesla say about the Gramme dynamo, and what was his professor's response to this?

8. How does the induction motor work?

9. Why did Tesla choose to write about his childhood?

10. What kind of hallucinations did Tesla have as a child?

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