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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. Where did Tesla build his prototype transmitter?
(a) A laboratory.
(b) His bathroom.
(c) A mountain top.
(d) His office.

2. What was Tesla's next step in development after the remote control technology came about?
(a) To make it accessible.
(b) To extend the range.
(c) To lighten the load.
(d) To market it.

3. Why did Tesla move to Paris?
(a) He was offered a job there.
(b) The woman he loved moved there.
(c) His parents asked him to move there.
(d) He hoped to see Edison while there.

4. What did Tesla want his transmitter to be used for?
(a) Transportation.
(b) All of these.
(c) Communication.
(d) Mathematics.

5. What did Tesla call his remote controlled technology?
(a) Teleautomatics.
(b) Wireless Control.
(c) Robotic computation.
(d) Remote access pneumology.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Tesla received when he first tried to sell his remote control technology?

2. Which invention of Tesla's was not widely used?

3. What was new about Tesla's remote controlled device?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Tesla hope to change the desert with his transmitter?

2. What led Tesla to create the Tesla Coil?

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

4. How did Tesla end his autobiography?

5. Why did Tesla stop working for Edison?

6. How did Bauzin try to help Tesla?

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

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

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

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

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