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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Tesla do every day in Paris before going to work?
(a) Practiced his sketching.
(b) Ran a mile.
(c) Took a long swim.
(d) Ate bicuits at an ale house.

2. What did Tesla say was the cause of war?
(a) Past calamities.
(b) The differences in people.
(c) Greed.
(d) Altering levels of power.

3. What did Tesla help Edison produce?
(a) Electric motors.
(b) Telephone wires.
(c) Light bulb fillaments.
(d) Telephone receivers.

4. What was never completed for Tesla's transmitter?
(a) The power voltage units.
(b) The tower.
(c) The dual transmitter.
(d) The batteries.

5. What kind of oscillation did Tesla strive to find?
(a) Magnetic.
(b) Electrical.
(c) Controlled.
(d) Steady.

6. What kind of transmitter was Tesla working on when he wrote this book?
(a) Magnetic.
(b) Oscillating.
(c) Magnifying.
(d) Electric.

7. What kind of device did Tesla say his transmitter could control?
(a) All of these.
(b) Anything that uses wires.
(c) Anything that is metallic.
(d) Anything that uses electricity.

8. Where did Tesla go after finishing his first transmitter?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Chicago.
(c) New York.
(d) Miami.

9. What did Tesla say inspired his earlier inventions?
(a) Existing devices.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Lectures from his father.
(d) Old paintings.

10. What did Tesla call his remote controlled technology?
(a) Wireless Control.
(b) Robotic computation.
(c) Remote access pneumology.
(d) Teleautomatics.

11. Why did Tesla move to Paris?
(a) The woman he loved moved there.
(b) He was offered a job there.
(c) His parents asked him to move there.
(d) He hoped to see Edison while there.

12. What did Tesla think his humanoid machine could come to have?
(a) Judgement.
(b) Apathy.
(c) Reactions.
(d) Progeny.

13. What did Tesla hope to transmit?
(a) Sounds.
(b) Images.
(c) All of these.
(d) Locations.

14. What was Tesla's next step in development after the remote control technology came about?
(a) To lighten the load.
(b) To extend the range.
(c) To market it.
(d) To make it accessible.

15. What made Tesla indispensible to the company he worked for in Paris?
(a) His hard work.
(b) His skills.
(c) His kind demeanor.
(d) His linguistic abilities.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Mr. Puskas's occupation?

3. Tesla based his ideas about human responses on ___________.

4. What did Tesla say he was ignorant of when first getting to Paris?

5. Who funded the production of Tesla's induction motors?

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