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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. Why did Tesla move to Paris?
(a) The woman he loved moved there.
(b) His parents asked him to move there.
(c) He was offered a job there.
(d) He hoped to see Edison while there.

2. How much was Tesla promised from Edison?
(a) $5,000.
(b) $10,000.
(c) $500.
(d) $50,000.

3. How did Tesla get the money to move somewhere to launch his invention?
(a) He took out a loan.
(b) He sold all his possessions.
(c) He emptied his bank account.
(d) He cashed out his inheritance.

4. What kind of transmitter was Tesla working on when he wrote this book?
(a) Magnifying.
(b) Electric.
(c) Oscillating.
(d) Magnetic.

5. What did Tesla compare the field of his transmitter to?
(a) Bubbles.
(b) Clouds.
(c) Air streams.
(d) Wires.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tesla compared humans to ____________.

2. How did Tesla describe humans?

3. What did Tesla call the field created by his transmitter?

4. What did Tesla describe in Chapter 5?

5. What did Edison call his offer to Tesla?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were some of the potential uses of Tesla's transmitter?

2. How did Tesla explain the vision he had of his mother as she was dying?

3. What happened when Tesla tried to get approval for a light fixture at the company in Strassburg?

4. How did Tesla hope to prevent wars in the future?

5. What did the Tesla Coil do?

6. Why did Tesla say his transmitter was never completed?

7. What did Tesla do in his free time while in Strassburg?

8. What happened when some Americans in Paris first offered to back Tesla's motor invention?

9. What kind of machine did Tesla hope to make based on his theory of outward stimuli?

10. How did Tesla end his autobiography?

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