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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the 360 project cost more than the development of?
(a) The space shuttle.
(b) The atomic bomb.
(c) The automobile.
(d) The jet engine.

2. What was the second company that Wallach worked for?
(a) General Electric.
(b) Raytheon.
(c) DEC.
(d) Data General.

3. What can you type instead of North?
(a) N.
(b) No.
(c) W.
(d) Up.

4. What do the engineers often talk about putting on the side of the Eclipse?
(a) A canard.
(b) A kludge.
(c) A bag.
(d) A pencil sharpener.

5. What does the Microteam do to everything they touch?
(a) Knock out of place.
(b) Ruin.
(c) Over-complicate.
(d) Attach their prefix.

6. What computer is the simulator stored on?
(a) Gollum.
(b) The miniNOVA.
(c) Coke.
(d) Trixie.

7. What is the class of solids that transistors are made of?
(a) Alloys.
(b) Microchips.
(c) Semiconductors.
(d) Plasmids.

8. What does Wallach think of North Carolina?
(a) It's not a place to bring up his wife and children.
(b) The food is terrible.
(c) All of the above.
(d) It sucks.

9. What is the suicide command?
(a) Axe me.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Kill self.
(d) Kill me.

10. How old is Alsing when the Eagle project begins?
(a) 42.
(b) 35.
(c) 31.
(d) 26.

11. 'There's no such thing as a...'
(a) Perfect design.
(b) Computer that fits on one board.
(c) Thing worth doing well.
(d) Sociable engineer.

12. What Star Wars character is Wallach compared to?
(a) Luke Skywalker.
(b) Chewbacca.
(c) Darth Vader.
(d) Han Solo.

13. What is the name for a design flaw within a computer system?
(a) Crock.
(b) Fault.
(c) Blue screen of death.
(d) Crash.

14. What is the first programming language that Alsing learns to use?
(a) Python.
(b) C+.
(c) Basic.
(d) FORTRAN.

15. What is scarce in the engineering business?
(a) Men in their forties.
(b) Women.
(c) Fashion sense.
(d) Suits.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the more interesting of the two Eagles?

2. What type of car does Tom West drive?

3. How many unique addresses can a 16-bit computer handle (approximately)?

4. What signal is Jon Blau in charge of?

5. What will West do if the kids don't stop laughing?

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