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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Professor Poeschl was from ______________.
(a) Croatia.
(b) Germany.
(c) Hungary.
(d) France.

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

3. What did Tesla do when he fell ill after graduating from The Real Gymnasium?
(a) Read books.
(b) Talked to his mother.
(c) Listened to the radio.
(d) Practiced drawing.

4. What allowed Tesla to see inherent dangers?
(a) His experiene.
(b) His observation.
(c) His voices.
(d) His intellect.

5. What about himself does Tesla say led to his success?
(a) His physiology.
(b) His parental support.
(c) His determination.
(d) All of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. What talent did Tesla suppress at a young age?

2. Which of these did Tesla refrain from drinking?

3. What did Tesla think inventions should improve?

4. What ability did Tesla say most people lacked?

5. In what setting did Tesla think his mother was trapped?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of hallucinations did Tesla have as a child?

2. How does the induction motor work?

3. What did Tesla always do before eating?

4. How and where did Tesla get his first job?

5. Why did Tesla decide to get his first job?

6. What did Tesla do in response to the death of his brother?

7. What happened when Gospic got a new fire engine?

8. What happened when Tesla started reading Voltaire?

9. What did Tesla suffer from during his breakdown in Prague?

10. What did Tesla do to the fire engine that Gospic got?

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