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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was new about Tesla's remote controlled device?
(a) It was easily manipulated.
(b) It followed directions.
(c) It was small.
(d) It didn't use wires.

2. Whom did Tesla defend at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) J.P. Morgan.
(b) His partner.
(c) The media men.
(d) Edison.

3. What change did Tesla make to his second transmitter?
(a) It had wires.
(b) It was a higher frequency.
(c) It was smaller.
(d) It was bigger.

4. What did Tesla describe in Chapter 5?
(a) His design for the new transmitter.
(b) His daily schedule.
(c) His plan for the future.
(d) His sources of inspiration.

5. How was Tesla received when he first tried to sell his remote control technology?
(a) He was rejected.
(b) They were skeptical.
(c) All of these.
(d) They were intrigued.

6. How much was Tesla promised from Edison?
(a) $50,000.
(b) $500.
(c) $10,000.
(d) $5,000.

7. What did Tesla get bogged down by while trying to create a great invention?
(a) A lack of time.
(b) Bureaucratics.
(c) Copyrights and patents.
(d) Financial problems.

8. How did Tesla explain a vision he saw of his mother as she was dying?
(a) She came to him in spirit.
(b) He had heard a song she sung.
(c) He had read a letter from her earlier that day.
(d) It was like a painting he had seen.

9. Who told Tesla to go where he ended up launching his great invention?
(a) Bauzin.
(b) Puskas.
(c) Edison.
(d) Batchellor.

10. What was forming while Tesla was writing this book?
(a) The United Nations.
(b) The Green Berets.
(c) The Leaguge of Nations.
(d) The Presidential Cabinet.

11. What did Tesla compare the field of his transmitter to?
(a) Bubbles.
(b) Wires.
(c) Air streams.
(d) Clouds.

12. What did Tesla say was the real reason for the transmitter not being completed?
(a) It was too powerful.
(b) It would cause political problems.
(c) It was not properly thought out.
(d) It was not yet time.

13. Which of Tesla's inventions was first given support?
(a) The induction motor.
(b) The magnetic field motor.
(c) The perpetual motion machine.
(d) The arc lamp.

14. What did Tesla do to get recognized in his new job after moving from Prague?
(a) He made improvements to the telegraph.
(b) He worked longer and harder than expected.
(c) He sold his inventions.
(d) He picked up the language quickly.

15. What did Tesla say the invention he was working on while writing this book would do to the world?
(a) Radically change it.
(b) Improve it.
(c) All of these.
(d) Realign priorities.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Tesla say would end all wars?

3. What was never completed for Tesla's transmitter?

4. Why did Tesla say most people would never be able to explain strange experiences?

5. What was the first remote controlled device Tesla made?

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