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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 Tesla live with after he healed from his illness?

2. What would Tesla calculate before eating?

3. What kind of skills does Tesla say he learned from his father?

4. What did Tesla think delayed his development?

5. In what setting did Tesla think his mother was trapped?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Tesla say about the Gramme dynamo, and what was his professor's response to this?

2. How does the induction motor work?

3. What gave Tesla a bad reputation in Gospic?

4. What does Tesla tell his uncle about Niagara Falls?

5. What did Tesla do in response to the death of his brother?

6. What caused Tesla some reluctance in writing about his childhood?

7. Why did Tesla choose to write about his childhood?

8. How and where did Tesla get his first job?

9. What did Tesla say was the purpose of an inventor?

10. What happened when Tesla started reading Voltaire?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Personal identity was one of the main themes in this book. Where did this theme appear, and how did its inclusion in the biography change the style of the narration?

Essay Topic 2

What are some of the key examples of gratitude in this book, and how do these instances affect that people involved in those scenes?

Essay Topic 3

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

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