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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 kind of machine did Tesla plan to one day make without a rotor?

2. What did Tesla say inspired his earlier inventions?

3. How did Tesla study the impact of his Wireless System?

4. What does Tesla say was not easily identified in his inventions?

5. Whom did Tesla defend at the end of Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Bauzin try to help Tesla?

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

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

5. What happened when Tesla presented his remote control technology to the military?

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

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

8. How did Tesla hope to prevent wars in the future?

9. What did the diagram in Chapter 5 describe?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What obstacles did Tesla face in the progression of his career, and what did he do to get past them? How did this change his outlook on life?

Essay Topic 2

What are some of the key examples of gratitude in this book, and how do these instances affect that people involved in those scenes?

Essay Topic 3

Personal identity was one of the main themes in this book. Where did this theme appear, and how did its inclusion in the biography change the style of the narration?

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