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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What type of bugs need to be fixed before a computer can get out the door?
(a) Design flaws.
(b) Ergonomic inefficiencies.
(c) Logic errors.
(d) Software bugs.

3. What does West send along with the engineers who go to the conference?
(a) A bonus.
(b) His son.
(c) Refreshments.
(d) His regards.

4. When does Ed Rasala tell Carl Carman he will be finished debugging?
(a) Late September.
(b) Sometime in the next year.
(c) He doesn't know.
(d) August.

5. What do the engineers talk about at their parties?
(a) Women.
(b) How much they hate West.
(c) Nothing but nervous small-talk.
(d) Computers.

6. What type of room does Peck like?
(a) An empty one.
(b) A noisy one.
(c) A private one.
(d) A well-light one.

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

8. How does Jon Blau refer to the blonde twins at National Cash Register's booth?
(a) Attractive.
(b) Bipolar.
(c) Dangerous.
(d) Identical.

9. What type of tiredness do Rasala and the rest of the team suffer from?
(a) Terminal.
(b) Wife and/or girlfriend-related.
(c) Long-term.
(d) Acute.

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

11. What does Bernstein build by himself?
(a) A microscopic camera.
(b) A microphone.
(c) A microplane.
(d) A microprocessor.

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

13. What part of the Eagle becomes the focal point, or 'bogeyman?'
(a) The Instruction Processor.
(b) The motherboard.
(c) The GUI.
(d) The Central Processing Unit.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of fighter does the author compare the Eclipse group to?

2. What type of engine has West never worked on before?

3. What was the name of the cluster-controller that Rosen designed?

4. How many inventors will the Eagle have?

5. What did Data General buy half of?

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