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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does the author describe Rasala's reaction when Josh Rosen quits?
(a) Denial.
(b) Grief.
(c) Anger.
(d) Acceptance.

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

4. What does Rasala do when Holberger confronts him about a problem with Jim Guyer?
(a) Separate the two temporarily.
(b) Fire Guyer.
(c) Smile and nod.
(d) Tell Holberger that Guyer can 'do what he wants.'

5. How long did it take to make the Eagle?
(a) Thirty-three months.
(b) A year and a half.
(c) Two years.
(d) One year.

6. In what month is the National Computer Conference?
(a) July.
(b) August.
(c) June.
(d) May.

7. What gets tiring after a while?
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Danger.
(c) Exitement.
(d) Gambling.

8. Why does Jon Blau become a Hardy Boy?
(a) Because Josh Rosen quit.
(b) He had already written much of the microcode for the graphical interface.
(c) All of the above.
(d) The Hardy Boys are the only group he gets along with.

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

10. Where is the 'very liberal arts college' that Rosen visits?
(a) New York.
(b) Ohio.
(c) New Hampshire.
(d) Vermont.

11. How many inventors will the Eagle have?
(a) There can only be one.
(b) Fifty.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Almost a hundred.

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

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

14. What does the Microteam lack?
(a) Manpower.
(b) A flexible schedule.
(c) A simulator program.
(d) Their own computer.

15. What is the latest segment of the industry to experience a boom?
(a) Peripherals.
(b) Memory.
(c) Technical support.
(d) Graphics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did cavemen use to debug fire?

2. How many types of arithmetic must the Eagle perform simultaneously at high speed?

3. What do Holberger and Rasala burn together?

4. What is a cat secretive about?

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

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