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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. Why did Tesla's transmitter backer withdraw their support?
(a) It cost too much.
(b) It was taking too long.
(c) It was too risky.
(d) It is not stated.

2. What did Tesla call his remote controlled technology?
(a) Wireless Control.
(b) Remote access pneumology.
(c) Robotic computation.
(d) Teleautomatics.

3. How did Tesla plan to control the machine that mimicked humans?
(a) With computed instructions.
(b) With tracks and currents.
(c) All of these.
(d) With outward stimuli.

4. Which of these did Telsa hope his transmitter could control?
(a) The water levels.
(b) The earth's temperature.
(c) The economy.
(d) The weather.

5. What was Tesla's next step in development after the remote control technology came about?
(a) To extend the range.
(b) To market it.
(c) To make it accessible.
(d) To lighten the load.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of area was the transmitter to be used in?

2. How did Tesla feel about moving to Paris?

3. What kind of oscillation did Tesla strive to find?

4. What did Tesla never strive to do with his inventions?

5. What did Tesla help Edison produce?

Short Essay Questions

1. How big of an impact did Tesla think his transmitter would bring?

2. Who is Charles Batchellor?

3. Why did Tesla say his transmitter was never completed?

4. Why did Tesla choose to move to New York?

5. What were some of the potential uses of Tesla's transmitter?

6. How did Tesla explain the vision he had of his mother as she was dying?

7. What happened when some Americans in Paris first offered to back Tesla's motor invention?

8. How did Tesla hope to change the desert with his transmitter?

9. How did Tesla feel about the League of Nations, and why?

10. What did Tesla do when he created the Tesla Electric Company?

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