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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. What is the Gramme dynamo?

2. What kind of gem did Tesla hate?

3. What was Tesla's father's occupation?

4. What did Tesla do when he fell ill after graduating from The Real Gymnasium?

5. What did Tesla want to become after going to the higher school?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of school did Tesla attend? Why?

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

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

4. What dangerous trick did Tesla once pull on his friends?

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

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

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

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

9. How was Tesla able to repair his reputation in the town of Gospic?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What were Tesla's ideas about war, and how did these ideas come to be?

Essay Topic 2

The people in this book all had their own goals and motivations. Select four of these people and write their main motivation throughout the book and how this goal affected the others around them.

Essay Topic 3

What did Tesla say was his most important invention? Why was it the most important?

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