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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Data General supposedly offer its employees in addition to medical insurance?
(a) Maternity leave.
(b) Alimony benefits.
(c) Dental.
(d) Death benefits.

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

3. Where does West go after leaving the team?
(a) Japan.
(b) Florida.
(c) Columbia.
(d) Germany.

4. What is the project flooded with come Spring?
(a) Cash.
(b) Engineers.
(c) Water from the melting snow.
(d) Programmers.

5. What does Rosemarie think West is?
(a) Someone who cares.
(b) All of the above.
(c) The daddy.
(d) An outlet for the team's frustrations.

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

7. 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.

8. What group does Rasala feud with?
(a) Marketing.
(b) The Hardy Boys.
(c) Diagnostics.
(d) Software.

9. What do computer programs tend to do?
(a) Crash.
(b) Loop.
(c) Execute functions rapidly.
(d) Get erased accidentally.

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

11. What type of device does West particularly not like?
(a) Satellites.
(b) Digital watches.
(c) Automated check-out scanners.
(d) Automatic transmissions.

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

13. How many passes of Eclipse program 21 do Coke and Gollum go through?
(a) 920.
(b) 945.
(c) 923.
(d) 921.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the staffer at Personnel tell Rosen they will remind him to do?

2. What does West send along with the engineers who go to the conference?

3. What type of bugs need to be fixed before a computer can get out the door?

4. What part of the computer does Rasala melt accidentally?

5. How many inventors will the Eagle have?

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