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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. Susan's attitude and demeanor are cold and icy toward Swathmore because _______________________________.

2. When Susan is walking on the underground highway, who drives up in a gold cart?

3. How did Becker get out of Santa Cruz?

4. Why did Swathmore leave Node to go to his office to abort TRANSLTR?

5. How long did it take the staff to restore the filters?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain why Hulohot was wrong in thinking that Becker had no way out of the viewing platform area.

2. When does Fontaine begin to realize the seriousness of the situation?

3. Soshi announces that she has found orphans in the program. What are orphans?

4. What happened where the filters were totally destroyed?

5. Who hired Hulohot and offered the pass key to Numataka?

6. What does Susan learn from Swathmore's pager?

7. What does Jabba mean when he says pass keys usually have penalty clauses?

8. Swathmore was begging Susan to stay with him. What did he know when he saw the pager messages?

9. What does Hale say that his plans for Digital Fortress are?

10. What does Swathmore do when Susan leaves to cut off the power to TRANSLTR?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

What is an anonymous server? What are the benefits of an anonymous server? Under what circumstances would people want to use one and why?

Essay Topic 3

Explain the danger of a Digital Fortress encryption program to an entity like the NSA. What would it mean for super computers like TRANSLTR? What does the Bergofsky Principle mean? Why is it the first thing everybody mentions when they hear about the Digital Fortress encryption program?

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