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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. How long did Tesla attend the higher school?

2. Why did Tesla suppress a talent at a young age?

3. Where was Tesla's Polytechnic School?

4. Why did Tesla say most people lacked a certain ability?

5. What was Tesla unable to do while at the Polytechnic School?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What gave Tesla a bad reputation in Gospic?

4. What did Tesla say he got from his mother?

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

6. How did Tesla respond to the hallucinations he had as a child?

7. What kind of aversions did Tesla have in his early years?

8. How did Tesla use his imagination to help him invent things?

9. What weapons was Tesla good at using?

10. What kind of school did Tesla attend? Why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What celebrity did Tesla get most excited about meeting? Why? What happened after this meeting took place?

Essay Topic 2

What obstacles did Tesla face in the progression of his career, and what did he do to get past them? How did this change his outlook on life?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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