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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 the invention he was working on while writing this book would do to the world?
(a) Realign priorities.
(b) All of these.
(c) Radically change it.
(d) Improve it.

2. Where did Tesla create his second transmitter?
(a) Alcartraz.
(b) Ellis Island.
(c) A Great Lake.
(d) Long Island.

3. What did Tesla say most people did not observe closely enough?
(a) Their thoughts.
(b) Their futures.
(c) Their physical nature.
(d) Their origins.

4. What did Tesla predict for the future at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) His invention would one day be used.
(b) He would back his own project.
(c) He would be heralded as a great man.
(d) His invention would die with him.

5. What kind of device did Tesla say his transmitter could control?
(a) Anything that uses wires.
(b) Anything that is metallic.
(c) Anything that uses electricity.
(d) All of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Tesla's inventions was first given support?

2. What was forming while Tesla was writing this book?

3. What did Tesla call the field created by his transmitter?

4. What did Tesla do to get recognized in his new job after moving from Prague?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Tesla think war would be different in the future and why?

3. What led Tesla to create the Tesla Coil?

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

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

6. What did the diagram in Chapter 5 describe?

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

8. How did Bauzin try to help Tesla?

9. How did Tesla end his autobiography?

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

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