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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 did Tesla construct while he was in Germany?
(a) A brushless ignitor.
(b) A platform for his magnets.
(c) The induction motor.
(d) A model for the telephone.

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

3. What was Tesla's first company called?
(a) The Tesla Electric Company.
(b) The Tesla Motors Corporation.
(c) The Tesla Light Installators.
(d) The Tesla Machine Company.

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

5. Who tried to find support for Tesla while he was in Germany?
(a) Henry Ford.
(b) A banker.
(c) The mayor.
(d) A businessman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tesla do every day in Paris before going to work?

2. What change did Tesla make to his second transmitter?

3. How did some people erroneously describe Tesla's remote control technology?

4. What kind of machine did Tesla plan to one day make without a rotor?

5. Where did Tesla move to after living in Prague?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the diagram in Chapter 5 describe?

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

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

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

5. What did Tesla say was the root cause of war?

6. What happened when Tesla presented his remote control technology to the military?

7. What did the Tesla Coil do?

8. Where did Tesla say the idea for most of his inventions came from?

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

10. What did Tesla do when he created the Tesla Electric Company?

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