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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 would Tesla calculate before eating?
(a) The origin of his food.
(b) The number of people in the room.
(c) The volume of his food.
(d) The nutritional value of his food.

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

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

4. Whom did Tesla live with after he healed from his illness?
(a) His mother.
(b) His aunt.
(c) His uncle.
(d) His cousins.

5. Tesla attributed his creativity to _________________.
(a) His brother.
(b) His father.
(c) His uncle.
(d) His mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Tesla say most people lacked a certain ability?

2. What was Tesla asked to write about?

3. What practice did Tesla credit his success to?

4. How did Tesla describe the house he lived in after healing from his illness?

5. What did Tesla do to avoid his distractions as a child?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why was Tesla's father not more excited about his success at the school?

4. What did Tesla say was the purpose of an inventor?

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

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

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

8. How was Tesla able to catch crows?

9. What happened when Tesla started reading Voltaire?

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

(see the answer keys)

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