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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pinball.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of engineers go on working after Holberger broadcasts the emergency message?
(a) Those with work that was not important enough to bother saving.
(b) Only the most dedicated.
(c) The cynical and jaded.
(d) The inattentive ones.

2. What is the bigger game?
(a) Business.
(b) Adventure.
(c) Survival.
(d) Pinball.

3. What was Chuck Holland's father?
(a) An engineer.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) A microcoder.
(d) A convicted felon.

4. What role does Wallach play in the EGO wars?
(a) West's diplomat.
(b) West's worst enemy.
(c) West's Hessian.
(d) West's doormat.

5. What is MULTICS?
(a) A plan to end time-sharing systems for good.
(b) A plan to expand time-sharing systems into a dominant market position.
(c) A plan for making time-sharing systems secure.
(d) A plan for hacking into time-sharing systems.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the engineers often talk about putting on the side of the Eclipse?

2. What is the name of Firth's wife?

3. What does the Microteam do to everything they touch?

4. Who is sent to Data General's semiconductor facility for a 'vacation?'

5. What does the Microteam lack?

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