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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 will happen to West if he cannot keep life and computers separate?
(a) West already cannot keep life and computer separate.
(b) He will take a vacation.
(c) He will go mad.
(d) He will quit.

2. What does Wallach think of North Carolina?
(a) It's not a place to bring up his wife and children.
(b) All of the above.
(c) The food is terrible.
(d) It sucks.

3. What new term enters West's vocabulary during the fall?
(a) Efficiency.
(b) Proactive.
(c) Retirement.
(d) Trust.

4. How many unique addresses can a 16-bit computer handle (approximately)?
(a) 32 million.
(b) 65,000.
(c) 16,000.
(d) 4.3 billion.

5. What momentous news arrives on an evening in early 1979?
(a) North Carolina is being closed down due to security issues.
(b) North Carolina has lost a key member of its staff.
(c) North Carolina's team is merging with West's team.
(d) North Carolina is going to miss its deadline.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the names Woodstock and Trixie come from?

2. What single invention revolutionized the computer industry?

3. How does Data General handle money?

4. What does West call the confident, aggressive young engineers?

5. What is MULTICS?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tom change? When and why does he change?

2. What was Tom West like as an engineer, friend, and person?

3. Describe Alsing's management style.

4. Describe the weekly meetings Tom has with Wallach, Alsing, and Rasala.

5. How is competition used as a management strategy in companies such as Data General and IBM? Is this a good strategy?

6. How does Josh Rosen describe the management structure of the Eagle project?

7. Why does a company use cubicles?

8. What is the problem with West at the beginning of the chapter?

9. How is the Microteam organized?

10. What is important about the way Westborough was designed?

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