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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 was operation Screaming Fist ripe for?

2. What type of drugs does Wage deal in?

3. What injury does Molly suffer during the job?

4. What season is it?

5. What is strange about the Japanese man in Finn's story?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Case know about Wintermute?

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

3. When does Case first experience his anger?

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

5. What has Wintermute done to enrage Case?

6. What are Molly's feelings toward Armitage?

7. How does Case feel after the job is finished?

8. What happens when the characters come upon Riviera?

9. What makes the Panther Moderns unique? Why do you think Molly would want to involve them?

10. What is cyberspace?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Write an essay on an original technology that you think would be popular in the future. The essay does not need to be scientifically accurate. Be sure to touch upon:

1) Uses for the technology.

2) Who it would appeal to.

3) The effects of this technology upon its users.

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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