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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 did Tesla say all of his inventions were in essence?
(a) New creations.
(b) Universally needed.
(c) Improvements.
(d) World changing elements.

2. How did Tesla hope to bring the world together?
(a) Spreading out wealth.
(b) Educating the masses.
(c) Magnifying cultural differences.
(d) Putting in place his World Wireless System.

3. What did Tesla say he was ignorant of when first getting to Paris?
(a) Inventing.
(b) Drafting.
(c) Business.
(d) French culture.

4. What did Edison call his offer to Tesla?
(a) A ridiculous mistake.
(b) A practical joke.
(c) A warranted fee.
(d) An impossible feat.

5. What kind of machine did Tesla plan to one day make without a rotor?
(a) A communication machine.
(b) A weather predicting machine.
(c) A flying machine.
(d) A farming machine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Tesla think there was an obvious use for his remote controlled technology?

2. Which of these did Telsa hope his transmitter could control?

3. What did Tesla say the invention he was working on while writing this book would do to the world?

4. Where did Tesla finally go to launch his great invention?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Tesla end his autobiography?

2. What kind of machine did Tesla hope to make based on his theory of outward stimuli?

3. Who is Charles Batchellor?

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

5. What did the Tesla Coil do?

6. What did the diagram in Chapter 5 describe?

7. How far reaching would the transmitter's field reach, according to Tesla?

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

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

10. Where did Tesla think his remote control technology would be best utilized?

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