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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of car does Tom West drive?
(a) A blue Cadillac.
(b) A green Volvo.
(c) A red Saab.
(d) A black Ford.

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

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

4. What game does Alsing play?
(a) Warcraft.
(b) Adventure.
(c) Dungeons and Dragons.
(d) Evo.

5. Where does West's father work?
(a) IBM.
(b) Ma Bell.
(c) Apple.
(d) AT&T.

6. How many small programming projects does Dave Peck do for the team?
(a) 54.
(b) 23.
(c) 12.
(d) 34.

7. What is Data General's relationship to Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)?
(a) Data General has a wide lead over DEC in market share.
(b) Data General was bankrupted by DEC.
(c) Data General has nothing to do with DEC.
(d) Data General is DEC's son.

8. What does OEM stand for?
(a) Obviously Except from Me.
(b) Original Equipment Manufacturer
(c) Oligarchical Electronics Masking.
(d) Ostentatious Excellence in Marketing.

9. What new term enters West's vocabulary during the fall?
(a) Proactive.
(b) Retirement.
(c) Efficiency.
(d) Trust.

10. What is one of the most important questions in the computer industry?
(a) How to transmit data.
(b) How to retrieve data.
(c) How to store data.
(d) How to protect data.

11. What are still the largest buildings in many towns?
(a) Lumber mills.
(b) Carpet factories.
(c) Car factories.
(d) Textile mills.

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

13. What does Trixie like to do?
(a) Play tricks on Woodstock.
(b) Anthropomorphize machines.
(c) Carl.
(d) Misbehave.

14. How many assembly language instructions does the Eclipse contain?
(a) 420.
(b) 101.
(c) 390.
(d) 195.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much does it cost to manufacture a VAX?

2. What is scarce in the engineering business?

3. What type of shoes does Tom West wear?

4. How many jobs depend on the project being successful?

5. Where do the names Woodstock and Trixie come from?

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