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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. Tesla based his ideas about human responses on ___________.

2. What did Tesla hope to perpetuate with his inventions?

3. What problem did Tesla run into when first manufacturing his induction motors?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Tesla end his autobiography?

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

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

4. What did Tesla say was different about his transmitter?

5. What question was Tesla often asked about his inventions?

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

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

8. What are teleautomatics?

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

10. What kind of devices did Tesla think could utilize the transmitter?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Belonging and security were two themes present in this book. Where did these themes appear, and which people were most motivated by them?

Essay Topic 3

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

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