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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 was Tesla asked to write about?
(a) His education.
(b) His inventions.
(c) His family.
(d) All of these.

2. What habit did Tesla overcome?
(a) Gambling.
(b) Smoking.
(c) All of these.
(d) Drinking.

3. How did Tesla's father make him use his mind as a child?
(a) He would let him sit in on his lectures.
(b) He would drill him in tests.
(c) He would give him problems to solve.
(d) He would leave him alone to finish large tasks.

4. Why was Tesla so concerned about the one thing he had no talent for in The Real Gymnasium?
(a) He wanted to be like his father.
(b) He was a perfectionist.
(c) It was a required part of the curriculum.
(d) It was important in inventing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tesla first try to create with a vacuum?

2. What almost caused Tesla to quit his studies at the Polytechnic School?

3. What kind of skills does Tesla say he learned from his father?

4. What did Tesla excel at in The Real Gymnasium?

5. How long did Tesla attend the higher school?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when Tesla started reading Voltaire?

2. Why did Tesla choose to write about his childhood?

3. What did Tesla do when he suddenly figured out how to create his induction motor?

4. How was Tesla able to repair his reputation in the town of Gospic?

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

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

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

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

9. How was Tesla able to catch crows?

10. How does the induction motor work?

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