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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Charles Batchellor work for?

2. What was Tesla's next step in development after the remote control technology came about?

3. What was Tesla's first company called?

4. Who tried to find support for Tesla while he was in Germany?

5. What kind of device did Tesla say his transmitter could control?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the diagram in Chapter 5 describe?

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

3. How did Tesla feel about the League of Nations, and why?

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

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

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

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

8. How far reaching would the transmitter's field reach, according to Tesla?

9. What did Tesla say was different about his transmitter?

10. Why did Tesla choose to move to New York?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The people in this book all had their own goals and motivations. Select four of these people and write their main motivation throughout the book and how this goal affected the others around them.

Essay Topic 2

Which person did you relate to the most in this book? Why? How did this person change throughout the book?

Essay Topic 3

What did Tesla say was his most important invention? Why was it the most important?

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