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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where does West's father work?
(a) Ma Bell.
(b) Apple.
(c) IBM.
(d) AT&T.
2. Where do the names Woodstock and Trixie come from?
(a) Music festivals.
(b) Comics.
(c) Pornography.
(d) Novels.
3. What was Chuck Holland's father?
(a) A convicted felon.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) An engineer.
(d) A microcoder.
4. What do the engineers often talk about putting on the side of the Eclipse?
(a) A canard.
(b) A kludge.
(c) A pencil sharpener.
(d) A bag.
5. How much video does West record?
(a) 11 hours.
(b) 4 hours.
(c) 20 hours.
(d) A half-hour infomercial's worth.
6. What does West call the confident, aggressive young engineers?
(a) Racehorses.
(b) Jockeys.
(c) Workhorses.
(d) Warhorses.
7. How many jobs depend on the project being successful?
(a) Eleven thousand.
(b) Ten thousand.
(c) Eight thousand.
(d) Five thousand.
8. What does Firth have a hard time remembering?
(a) The way to the office.
(b) His phone number.
(c) His anniversary.
(d) His wife's birthday.
9. Who is Edson de Castro?
(a) A former DEC employee who founded Data General.
(b) A former DEC employee who went on a murderous rampage at the corporate head office.
(c) A former DEC employee who was arrested for industrial espionage.
(d) A former DEC employee who invented the fax machine.
10. How many bits does the NOVA deal with at one time?
(a) 16.
(b) 8.
(c) 64.
(d) 32.
11. What type of shoes does Tom West wear?
(a) Dress shoes.
(b) Moccasins.
(c) Loafers.
(d) Sneakers.
12. What shows that an engineer has rank?
(a) His office has a door.
(b) He is listened to by de Castro.
(c) He wears a suit.
(d) He drives a nice car.
13. What does Wallach think of North Carolina?
(a) The food is terrible.
(b) All of the above.
(c) It sucks.
(d) It's not a place to bring up his wife and children.
14. What game does Alsing play?
(a) Adventure.
(b) Warcraft.
(c) Dungeons and Dragons.
(d) Evo.
15. When were the first pieces of route 495 laid down?
(a) The 1970s.
(b) The 1940s.
(c) The 1950s.
(d) The 1960s.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the name of the electrician that West and his wife befriend?
2. What can you type instead of North?
3. What will happen to West if he cannot keep life and computers separate?
4. What is the suicide command?
5. How does Blau's apartment make the author feel?
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