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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 try as a password?

2. What does Fontaine do after looking out the window at the crypto dome?

3. Jabba describes the problem in the data banks as what?

4. What does the term "sharks" refer to?

5. Susan finally turned and tried to run for safety because she ____________________________-.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Fontaine send his own team to Spain?

2. What is in Caesar's Box?

3. The only escape from Crypto is through Swathmore's private elevator. How does Susan arrive at the password?

4. What happened where the filters were totally destroyed?

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

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

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

8. During the video conference, why does Susan scream?

9. What does Susan have Soshi do?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Tankado's favorite saying was 'Who Will Guard the Guards?' Explain the meaning of this term within the context of the novel. Who was Tankado applying the term to and why?

Essay Topic 2

Swathmore had his own plans for the Digital Fortress encryption program. What did he plan to do? What would have been the implications of his plan if he could have carried it out? Why was Hale trying to stop Swathmore?

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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