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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. When did Tesla begin banishing bad visions?
(a) His teenage years.
(b) His college years.
(c) His adult years.
(d) His childhood.

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

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

4. What does Tesla dream up while traveling for a year?
(a) Inventions.
(b) His new school.
(c) Speeches.
(d) A house.

5. Why did Tesla suppress a talent at a young age?
(a) Other children laughed at him.
(b) His brother died.
(c) His father was sick.
(d) He never succeeded.

Short Answer Questions

1. What law did Tesla deride?

2. What was Tesla unable to do while at the Polytechnic School?

3. How was Tesla punished for ruining a woman's dress?

4. What did Tesla say was just as harmful as alcohol?

5. What ability did Tesla have no talent for in The Real Gymnasium?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What did Tesla's father do to help him hone his skill?

7. What caused Tesla some reluctance in writing about his childhood?

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

9. What dangerous trick did Tesla once pull on his friends?

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

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