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The Soul of a New Machine Test | Final Test - Medium

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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What new type of processor did Rosen design in college?
(a) Floating Point.
(b) Rolled Tungsten.
(c) Dual-Core.
(d) Fuzzy Logic.

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

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

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

5. How many lines of microcode does the Eagle have?
(a) 6734.
(b) 4096.
(c) 3421.
(d) 9873.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What college did West attend?

3. What does Rasala go to London with a model of?

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

5. According to Rasala, why is Veres the best of the college kids?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do West and Rasala make Rosen defensive?

2. How does Rosemarie describe the team's efforts and organization under West?

3. Describe the trip to the National Computer Conference.

4. What happened to West at Amherst college?

5. Describe the circumstances around Rosen's departure from Eagle.

6. How have computers changed society?

7. How is the debugging process visually represented?

8. What strange problem does the Eagle team have in August?

9. Describe the level of openness in the Eagle project.

10. Describe some of the problems with the debugging of the Eagle.

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