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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Tesla see as a major advantage of his work when he was younger?
(a) Communication enablement.
(b) Military uses.
(c) World unification.
(d) World education.

2. How did Tesla get the money to move somewhere to launch his invention?
(a) He emptied his bank account.
(b) He sold all his possessions.
(c) He cashed out his inheritance.
(d) He took out a loan.

3. What was Tesla's first company called?
(a) The Tesla Motors Corporation.
(b) The Tesla Electric Company.
(c) The Tesla Machine Company.
(d) The Tesla Light Installators.

4. Tesla based his ideas about human responses on ___________.
(a) His observations of his colleagues.
(b) His childhood.
(c) His laboratory experiments.
(d) All of these.

5. What did Tesla hope to perpetuate with his inventions?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Hope.
(c) Progression.
(d) War.

6. What did the Tesla Coil control?
(a) Light apertures.
(b) Magnetic fields.
(c) Motor speed.
(d) Electrical currents.

7. How did Tesla plan to control the machine that mimicked humans?
(a) All of these.
(b) With outward stimuli.
(c) With tracks and currents.
(d) With computed instructions.

8. What did Tesla say would make future wars horrific?
(a) Technology.
(b) Apathy.
(c) Barbarianism.
(d) Wealth.

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

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

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

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

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

14. 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.

15. What did Tesla construct while he was in Germany?
(a) A brushless ignitor.
(b) A platform for his magnets.
(c) A model for the telephone.
(d) The induction motor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tesla call the field created by his transmitter?

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

3. Who told Tesla to go where he ended up launching his great invention?

4. What did Tesla do to get recognized in his new job after moving from Prague?

5. What kind of field was created by the transmitter?

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