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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 Hale find when he arrives at the hangar?
2. Susan avoids being caught snooping through Hale's computer because __________________________.
3. What happens when Midge and Brinkerhoff are in the Director's office?
4. According to North Dakota, who killed Tankado?
5. Tankado has given a copy of the pass key to a friend for safe keeping. What happens if anything happens to Tankado?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is a tracer?
2. What did the American using the name North Dakota do?
3. What does Susan think of Swathmore's plan to replace the original Digital Fortress program with a modification?
4. What does Hale say to Susan when they are in Node 3?
5. Why did Swathmore send David Becker to Spain?
6. What is the purpose of the NSA?
7. After talking to Swathmore, what does Susan learn from Hale?
8. Why does Brinkerhoff find Fontaine's reaction to the problems in Crypto to be strange?
9. How does Greg Hale feel he has to stop Phil Chartrukian?
10. What is a cipher text?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is cryptology? Explain why it is important. Have you ever had any experience with encryption programs? What is decoding and why is it important? What kind of entities are interested in breaking code and why?
Essay Topic 2
Swathmore's actions cost the government a two billion dollar super computer and caused the death of or affected the lives of many people. Do you think Swathmore deserved to die? Why or why not? Was it poetic justice? Explain.
Essay Topic 3
What was Tankado's grudge against the United States? Why did he harbor this grudge? Do you think this had anything to do with his scheme and the the mention of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the message in the Caesar's Box. Do you think he set out to destroy TRANSLTR?
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