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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Molly kill when her cut-out chip failed?
(a) A television personality.
(b) A little boy.
(c) A talking head.
(d) A senator.

2. With whom do Molly and Case have a dinner date?
(a) Bruce.
(b) Armitage.
(c) Wintermute.
(d) One of the Tessier-Ashpools.

3. Why did Molly spend some time in the spindle a while back?
(a) She was hiding from people who wanted her dead.
(b) She had a vendetta with a mobster.
(c) She came to the spindle with a previous boyfriend.
(d) She was a gambler's bodyguard.

4. What does ICE stand for?
(a) Illusion Control Elaboration.
(b) Ice Cream Excitement.
(c) Integrated Code Execution.
(d) Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics.

5. What happened to Flatline years ago when he tried to crack an AI?
(a) He became famous.
(b) He flatlined.
(c) He experienced braindeath.
(d) All of the above.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Armitage's real name?

2. What color is the sky at the beginning of the novel?

3. What hotel are the characters staying at in Istanbul?

4. Whose image does Wintermute use to speak to Case?

5. Whose construct is Case going to steal?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gibson describe technology, both new and old?

2. What happened to Colonel Willis Corto?

3. What does Molly want Case do to about Armitage?

4. What happens when the characters come upon Riviera?

5. How does Case feel about the simstim link with Molly?

6. Describe the pace and type of business that Case must contend with.

7. What does Corto do after the trials are finished?

8. Why do the police react so harshly to the emergency call?

9. Who are the Turing police? What is known about them so far?

10. What was Case's profession? How did he lose his ability?

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