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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 say about what was being formed while he was writing this book?
(a) It was a hopeful sign.
(b) It would cause more problems.
(c) It was a first step.
(d) It had the wrong intentions.

2. What did Tesla say was the real reason for the transmitter not being completed?
(a) It was too powerful.
(b) It was not properly thought out.
(c) It would cause political problems.
(d) It was not yet time.

3. Why did Tesla quit working for Edison?
(a) Tesla insulted him.
(b) Edison insulted Tesla.
(c) There was a dispute over pay.
(d) Edison refused to see Tesla's induction motor idea.

4. Whom did Tesla defend at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) Edison.
(b) His partner.
(c) The media men.
(d) J.P. Morgan.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Tesla based his ideas about human responses on ___________.

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

3. What did Tesla call his remote controlled technology?

4. What did Tesla say the invention he was working on while writing this book would do to the world?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Tesla think his remote control technology would be best utilized?

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

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

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

5. Why did Tesla stop working for Edison?

6. What kind of devices did Tesla think could utilize the transmitter?

7. What are teleautomatics?

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

9. What did the diagram in Chapter 5 describe?

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

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