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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a cat secretive about?
(a) The location of its kittens.
(b) Its true feelings.
(c) Everything and anything.
(d) What it is up to.

2. What does Van San sell?
(a) Disk drives.
(b) Mason Jars.
(c) Minicomputers.
(d) Quietizers.

3. What college did West attend?
(a) Yale.
(b) MIT.
(c) Calvin.
(d) Amherst.

4. What does no one ever do at Data General?
(a) Give each other back massages.
(b) Pat each other on the back.
(c) Watch each other's backs.
(d) Backstab each other.

5. What division was Rosen in before coming to work on the Eagle?
(a) Special Systems.
(b) Games Consoles.
(c) Customer Care.
(d) Black Ops.

6. How did West and the other older engineers avoid the Vietnam war?
(a) By being too valuable to throw away in war.
(b) By moving to Canada.
(c) By hiding under assumed names.
(d) By joining companies that made things for it.

7. What new line of computers does IBM feature at the NCC?
(a) The IBM-PC line.
(b) The PPC 970 line.
(c) The 36-50 line.
(d) The 4300 line.

8. According to myth, what did Data General formerly zealously protect?
(a) Employees.
(b) Secrets.
(c) Cash-flow.
(d) Paperclips.

9. When does the Eagle make its debut?
(a) Winter of 1981.
(b) Spring of 1980.
(c) Fall of 1982.
(d) Summer of 1979.

10. What did the staffer at Personnel tell Rosen they will remind him to do?
(a) Be a team player.
(b) Take his vacations.
(c) Work harder.
(d) File his taxes.

11. What does IBM suffer from?
(a) A 'brain-drain' to other companies.
(b) Not enough innovation.
(c) Too much demand.
(d) Decreasing market share.

12. What has West talked about ever since coming to work for Data General?
(a) Quitting.
(b) Efficiency.
(c) Synergy.
(d) Responsibility.

13. What type of board did Rosen design?
(a) The ALU.
(b) The OMG.
(c) The CPU.
(d) The IP.

14. When does West leave for work?
(a) A bit before eight.
(b) A little after seven.
(c) In between seven-thirty and eight.
(d) Right at six.

15. Which character from Lord of the Rings does Peck name after Tom West?
(a) Gollum.
(b) Frodo.
(c) Bilbo.
(d) Gandolf.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Data General supposedly offer its employees in addition to medical insurance?

2. What is the project flooded with come Spring?

3. What is the bigger game?

4. What part of the Eagle becomes the focal point, or 'bogeyman?'

5. How many inventors will the Eagle have?

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