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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 Susan plan to use in searching for the pass key on Hale's computer?

2. When Megan goes back and talks to Becker, she _________________________.

3. Which of the following is Phil Chartrukian not concerned with?

4. What action does Chartrukian decide to take?

5. What does Midge Wilken see from her office?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Tankado plan to do with Digital Fortress?

2. What does Swathmore plan to do about the situation in Crypto?

3. What do Chad Brinkerhoff and Midge Milken question?

4. What is a mutation string?

5. What does Hale say to Susan when they are in Node 3?

6. What happens when Midge and Brinkerhoff are in the Director's office looking at the printout?

7. Why does Brinkerhoff find Fontaine's reaction to the problems in Crypto to be strange?

8. Why does Becker decide to enter the Club Embrujo?

9. Why does Hale want Susan to come with him?

10. What leads Susan to believe that Greg Hale is North Dakota?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Tankado's schemes duped Swathmore and others at the NSA, and it cost the NSA its TRANSLTR computer. Explain Tankado's scheme and how he orchestrated it. How could Swathmore be duped? What did Tankado have to know in order for Swathmore to be duped?

Essay Topic 2

Most organizations function on the basis of team work yet Swathmore told only Susan Fletcher about the Digital Fortress problem. Other people who learned about the TRANSLTR run time, began to ask questions and were rebuffed. Some took actions on their own. Was this the proper way to handle the situation? Would problems have been avoided if Swathmore hadn't been so secretive?

Essay Topic 3

Fontaine does not intervene in the situation until after the explosion in crypto. Why does he wait? What information does he have from tapping Swathmore's computer account? Evaluate Fontaine's handling of the situation.

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