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

2. How did Tesla explain a vision he saw of his mother as she was dying?
(a) He had read a letter from her earlier that day.
(b) He had heard a song she sung.
(c) It was like a painting he had seen.
(d) She came to him in spirit.

3. Why did Tesla move to Paris?
(a) His parents asked him to move there.
(b) He was offered a job there.
(c) The woman he loved moved there.
(d) He hoped to see Edison while there.

4. How did Tesla get the money to move somewhere to launch his invention?
(a) He took out a loan.
(b) He emptied his bank account.
(c) He sold all his possessions.
(d) He cashed out his inheritance.

5. What did Tesla say the invention he was working on while writing this book would do to the world?
(a) Radically change it.
(b) All of these.
(c) Improve it.
(d) Realign priorities.

Short Answer Questions

1. What made Tesla indispensible to the company he worked for in Paris?

2. Why did Tesla say most people would never be able to explain strange experiences?

3. What did Tesla compare the field of his transmitter to?

4. What did Tesla say was the real reason for the transmitter not being completed?

5. What state held Tesla's first transmitter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are teleautomatics?

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

3. How did Tesla end his autobiography?

4. What did Tesla do in his free time while in Strassburg?

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

6. Where did Tesla say the idea for most of his inventions came from?

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

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

9. What happened when Tesla tried to get approval for a light fixture at the company in Strassburg?

10. What did the Tesla Coil do?

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