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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Tesla say most people lacked a certain ability?

2. Where did Tesla almost drown?

3. What devastated Tesla's parents when he was young?

4. How fast is the Earth's rotation?

5. Who at the magazine asked Tesla to write?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Tesla suffer from during his breakdown in Prague?

2. What kind of aversions did Tesla have in his early years?

3. What did Tesla say he got from his mother?

4. What happened when Gospic got a new fire engine?

5. What caused Tesla some reluctance in writing about his childhood?

6. Why did Tesla decide to get his first job?

7. What does Tesla tell his uncle about Niagara Falls?

8. How did Tesla use his imagination to help him invent things?

9. What did Tesla say was the purpose of an inventor?

10. How did Tesla respond to the hallucinations he had as a child?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What inventions of Tesla are still affecting us today? How?

Essay Topic 2

How did Tesla feel about education? What effects did his feelings have on his life and his career?

Essay Topic 3

What were some of the strange quirks that Tesla had, and how did the people around him respond to these things?

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