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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 is Freeside?

2. What street runs the length of Freeside?

3. What do Case and Molly do in Case's room after the operation?

4. Where does Molly go while Case is 'watching'?

5. What does Case do after being dropped off?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is being unable to enter cyberspace such a harsh penalty for Case?

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

3. What is the significance of Screaming Fist?

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

5. How does Case feel about the sprawl as he and Molly leave for Istanbul? How is the sprawl described by Gibson?

6. What does Case know about Wintermute?

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

8. What happens when the characters come upon Riviera?

9. What is cyberspace?

10. What changes other than the nerve repairs have been made to Case? What is the effect of these modifications?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay on the role of technology in the human search for immortality. Be sure to address:

1) Possible applications of technology to extend human life, i.e., electronic encoding of the brain, medical science, cybernetics, etc.

2) Social, economic, and demographical effects of living forever.

3) Other methods, either scientific or mystical, by which humans have attempted to gain immortality.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay describing the industry of data security. Be sure to address:

1) Challenges that the industry has faced in the past, and faces at the moment.

2) Some well-documented cases of breaches of data security.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay explaining the negative aspects of technology described in Neuromancer:

1) Warnings about technology in Neuromancer, and how the book could be interpreted as being anti-technology.

2) Aspects of technological problems that the book predicts that are coming true or have already come true.

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