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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are the NSA main data banks located?
(a) in the Director's office
(b) in crypto
(c) in a secure underground vault
(d) off site

2. While they are talking with the agents in Spain, the work is how far away from destroying the remaining filters?
(a) one hour
(b) less than one half hour
(c) three hours
(d) twenty hours

3. Hulohot pinpoints Becker's location by ______________________________-.
(a) searching the area
(b) following a trail of blood
(c) calling out to him
(d) seeing a man's shadow from the sun

4. When does the Director order a crew to be sent to Crypto?
(a) when Jabba requests him to do so
(b) when Susan calls for help
(c) when Swathmore calls for help
(d) after the explosion

5. The message makes reference to _________________.
(a) the NSA
(b) TRNASLTR
(c) Spain
(d) Hiroshima and Nagasaki

6. Susan has Sohi rearrange the letter grouping to ___________________________.
(a) in descending order
(b) in reverse order
(c) in ascending order
(d) eight rows with eight letters

7. How does Hulohot die?
(a) shoots himself
(b) shot by the police
(c) shot by Becker
(d) falling down the stairs

8. What do they decide to use?
(a) the difference in the weights of the uranium isotopes
(b) the distance between the cities
(c) the difference in the dates of the bombings
(d) the difference between the megatons

9. What does Fontaine do after looking out the window at the crypto dome?
(a) he calls the Fire Department
(b) he sends Midge to check the situation
(c) he tries to call Swathmore
(d) he calls Security

10. The purpose of the pass key was to ____________________.
(a) enter the main data banks
(b) decrypt the Digital Fortress
(c) stop the virus
(d) deceive everyone

11. What does Susan try as a password?
(a) the name David
(b) her own name
(c) the name of Swathmore's wife
(d) the word virus

12. What does David suggest to Susan?
(a) she give up
(b) that she multiply sixteen by four and take out the spaces
(c) she should do an anagram of the inscription
(d) she call him on a private line

13. The Caesar's Box contains ________________________.
(a) a message from Tankado
(b) the pass key
(c) the same message as they received earlier about revealing the truth about TRANSLTR
(d) a message that there is no pass key

14. What does Susan begin to suspect?
(a) her tracer program is wrong
(b) there is no Digital Fortress and TRANSLTR has a virus
(c) Hale infected TRANSLTR with a virus
(d) the back door can't be found

15. When all the orphans are typed on the screen, Susan says that the block of four looks like what?
(a) a math book
(b) the Nazi Enigma code
(c) newspaper puzzles
(d) the coding for TRANSLTR

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Director have Midge Wilken do?

2. The agents claim that ________________________.

3. What is the target of Tankado's worm?

4. Brinkerhoff describes the cryptodome as ______________________.

5. There are twenty orange trees in the cathedral courtyard that are famous for ____________________________________.

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