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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 is the bigger game?
(a) Pinball.
(b) Survival.
(c) Adventure.
(d) Business.

2. 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) The Hardy Boys are the only group he gets along with.
(d) All of the above.

3. What was the name of the cluster-controller that Rosen designed?
(a) Thanatos.
(b) Chimera.
(c) Hydra.
(d) Archon.

4. According to Rosemarie, what is West always doing?
(a) Wasting time.
(b) Planning.
(c) Sizing up those around him.
(d) Ignoring his gut feelings.

5. What part of the computer does Rasala melt accidentally?
(a) The heat gun.
(b) A PAL.
(c) A chip socket.
(d) A co-processor.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many lines of microcode does the Eagle have?

3. When was the 32-bit computer that Wallach hears about designed?

4. What component is the crucial difference between the Eagle and earlier machines?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How have computers changed society?

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

3. How do West and Rasala make Rosen defensive?

4. Describe the debugging process of the typical computer.

5. Describe West's workshop.

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

7. Describe Rosen's background and education.

8. What resource problem does Holberger have? How does he solve it?

9. How does West feel about computers and machines?

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

(see the answer keys)

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