I want to test the ability of students to read a passage and answer questions about it. Could you please come up with a good question for the passage "In 1873, Tesla returned to his birthtown, Smiljan. Shortly after he arrived, Tesla contracted cholera; he was bedridden for nine months and was near death multiple times. Tesla's father, in a moment of despair, promised to send him to the best engineering school if he recovered from the illness (his father had originally wanted him to enter the priesthood)."? 

What might happen to Tesla when he was sick