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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 does Tesla say was not easily identified in his inventions?
(a) Their utility.
(b) Their use.
(c) Their importance.
(d) Their dangers.

2. What did the Tesla Coil control?
(a) Electrical currents.
(b) Magnetic fields.
(c) Motor speed.
(d) Light apertures.

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

4. How did Tesla hope to bring the world together?
(a) Magnifying cultural differences.
(b) Educating the masses.
(c) Spreading out wealth.
(d) Putting in place his World Wireless System.

5. How was Tesla received when he first tried to sell his remote control technology?
(a) All of these.
(b) He was rejected.
(c) They were skeptical.
(d) They were intrigued.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Tesla explain a vision he saw of his mother as she was dying?

2. Who told Tesla to go where he ended up launching his great invention?

3. What did Tesla hope to transmit?

4. What did Tesla think his humanoid machine could come to have?

5. Where did Tesla create his second transmitter?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Tesla end his autobiography?

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

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

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

7. What question was Tesla often asked about his inventions?

8. How did Tesla hope to change the desert with his transmitter?

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

10. How big of an impact did Tesla think his transmitter would bring?

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