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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. What does Tesla dream up while traveling for a year?

2. What did Tesla say was just as harmful as alcohol?

3. Why was Tesla so concerned about the one thing he had no talent for in The Real Gymnasium?

4. What did Tesla think inventions should improve?

5. What did Professor Poeschl teach?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What gave Tesla a bad reputation in Gospic?

4. What happened when Gospic got a new fire engine?

5. What happened when Tesla started reading Voltaire?

6. What did Tesla do to the fire engine that Gospic got?

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

8. Why was Tesla's father not more excited about his success at the school?

9. What did Tesla do when he suddenly figured out how to create his induction motor?

10. How does the induction motor work?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sacrifice was a theme that was very prevalent in this book. Who were the people most affected by this theme, and how did they allow sacrifice to change their lives?

Essay Topic 2

How did Tesla feel about education? What effects did his feelings have on his life and his career?

Essay Topic 3

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

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