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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Magnifying Transmitter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Tesla describe his mother?
(a) Creative inventor.
(b) All of these.
(c) Tireless worker.
(d) Domestic genius.

2. Who planned to back Tesla's transmitter?
(a) Gerald Ford.
(b) Thomas Edison.
(c) Mr. Vanderbilt.
(d) J.P. Morgan.

3. What did Tesla say would cure him while he was sick at the higher school?
(a) Reading from the Bible.
(b) Confessing his sins.
(c) Walking outside.
(d) Studying engineering.

4. How did Tesla's father make him use his mind as a child?
(a) He would drill him in tests.
(b) He would leave him alone to finish large tasks.
(c) He would give him problems to solve.
(d) He would let him sit in on his lectures.

5. What practice did Tesla credit his success to?
(a) Introspection.
(b) Drawing.
(c) Praying.
(d) Writing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Tesla move to Paris?

2. What did Tesla's father want him to become after going to the higher school?

3. What kind of device did Tesla say his transmitter could control?

4. What did Tesla predict for the future at the end of Chapter 5?

5. Who thought Tesla should write about his childhood?

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