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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Holberger and Rasala burn together?
(a) A picture of Tom West.
(b) A pay stub.
(c) Their ties.
(d) The head offices of Data General.

2. What did the staffer at Personnel tell Rosen they will remind him to do?
(a) Work harder.
(b) File his taxes.
(c) Be a team player.
(d) Take his vacations.

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

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

5. Where is Holberger in early September?
(a) Houston.
(b) New York.
(c) Burn-out city.
(d) Chicago.

6. What award do the Hardy Boys hand out?
(a) The Under Exraordinary Pressure Award.
(b) The Academy Award.
(c) The Eclipse Appreciation and Gratitude for Lonely Evenings Award (EAGLE).
(d) The PAL Award.

7. What do the engineers talk about at their parties?
(a) How much they hate West.
(b) Women.
(c) Computers.
(d) Nothing but nervous small-talk.

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

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

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

11. What part of the Eagle becomes the focal point, or 'bogeyman?'
(a) The GUI.
(b) The Central Processing Unit.
(c) The motherboard.
(d) The Instruction Processor.

12. Who is one of the best Hardy Boys?
(a) Steve Smith.
(b) Dave Epstein.
(c) Carl Alsing.
(d) Ed Rasala.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of Data General's equipment sales does the Eagle represent after its launch?

2. What does Rasala do when Holberger confronts him about a problem with Jim Guyer?

3. What new type of processor did Rosen design in college?

4. How many inventors will the Eagle have?

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

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