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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 did de Castro usually eat in the lab?
(a) A vegetarian hamburger.
(b) Pizza.
(c) A Fudgsicle.
(d) Chicken wings.

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

3. What is the name of the standard test on computer speed?
(a) The Leicester Benchmark.
(b) The Littlethorpe Benchmark.
(c) The Whetstone Benchmark.
(d) The Countesthorpe Benchmark.

4. What component is the crucial difference between the Eagle and earlier machines?
(a) 32 bits vs. 16 bits.
(b) A dual-core processor.
(c) A WYSIWYG interface.
(d) Accelerators.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rosemarie think West is?

2. What did West do every morning before work during the debugging of the first Eclipse?

3. Where will Data General send the Eagle blueprints to?

4. What do Holberger and Rasala burn together?

5. When does West leave for work?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does West's personality change between home and work?

2. Describe IBM's booth at the NCC.

3. What 'right choice' did West make for the Eagle?

4. For the employees, what is the difference between Tom West and Carl Carman?

5. How does West react to requests from the engineers? Why?

6. What happened to West at Amherst college?

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

8. Describe West's workshop.

9. How does the team begin to get ahead of itself?

10. Why did engineers keep dropping out of the Eagle program?

(see the answer keys)

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