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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. What trick did Tesla once play on his friends?
(a) He pretended to be crazy.
(b) He cut their hair.
(c) He put salt in their sugar.
(d) He pretended to drown.

2. Where did Tesla almost drown?
(a) At the ocean.
(b) In a swimming pool.
(c) In a river.
(d) By a dock.

3. What did Tesla hope to be able to control?
(a) His mind.
(b) His country.
(c) His body.
(d) His dreams.

4. What distracted Tesla as a child?
(a) Loud noises.
(b) Bright lights.
(c) Hallucinations.
(d) Strange patterns.

5. What did Tesla do at night while at the Polytechnic School?
(a) Wrote letters.
(b) Studied.
(c) Partied.
(d) Dreamed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Tesla's Polytechnic School?

2. What did Tesla say would cure him while he was sick at the higher school?

3. What devastated Tesla's parents when he was young?

4. What magazine asked Tesla to write?

5. Why did Tesla refrain from caffeine?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Tesla doing when he made his motor breakthrough?

2. What does Tesla tell his uncle about Niagara Falls?

3. What weapons was Tesla good at using?

4. What did Tesla say he got from his mother?

5. What gave Tesla a bad reputation in Gospic?

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

7. How did Tesla respond to the hallucinations he had as a child?

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

9. What kind of school did Tesla attend? Why?

10. What did Tesla say about the Gramme dynamo, and what was his professor's response to this?

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