From the
JOKIN' AROUND DISK
by
LEEJAN ENTERPRISES
P.O. Box 66. Happy Valley.
South Australia. 5159.
TEST FOR SYSTEM ANALYIST
INSTRUCTIONS: Read each question carefully. Answer all questions. You have
Four hours. Begin immediately.
1. HISTORY: Describe the history of the Papacy from its origins to the
present day, concentrating especially but not exclusively on
its social, political, economic, religious, and philosophical
impact on Europe, Asia, America, and Africa.
Be brief, concise, and specific.
2. MEDICINE: You have been provided with a razor blade, a piece of gauze,
and a bottle of scotch. Remove your appendix. Do not suture
your work until it has been inspected. You have 15 minutes.
3. PUBLIC SPEAKING: 2500 riot-crazed aborigines are storming the room. Calm
them. You may use any ancient language except Latin or
Greek.
4. BIOLOGY: Create life. Estimate the differences in subsequent human
culture if this form of life had developed 500 million years
earlier, with special attention to its probable effect on the
English Parliamentary system. Prove your thesis.
5. MUSIC: Write a piano concerto. Orchestrate and perform it with flute and
drum. You will find a piano under your seat.
6. PSYCHOLOGY: Based on your knowledge of their works, evaluate the
emotional stability, degree of adjustment, and repressed
frustrations of each of the following:
Alexander of Aphrodisias,
Rameses II,
Gregory of Nicea and
Hammurabi.
Support your evaluation with quotations from each man's work,
making appropriate references. It is not necessary to
translate.
7. SOCIOLOGY: Estimate the sociological problems that might accompany the
end of the world. Construct an experiment to test your
theory.
8. ENGINEERING: The disassembled parts of a high-powered rifle have been
placed on your desk. You will also find and instruction
manual, printed in Swahilli. In ten minutes a hungry Bengal
tiger will be admitted to the room. Take whatever action
you feel appropriate. Be prepared to justify your decision.
9. ECONOMICS: Develop a realistic plan to refinance the national debt. Trace
the possible effects of your plan in the following areas:
Cubism, the Donatist controversy, and the wave theory of light.
Outline a method for preventing these effects. Criticize this
method from all possible points of view. Point out the
deficiencies in your point of view, as demonstrated in your
answer to the last question.
10. POLITICAL SCIENCE: There is a red telephone on the desk beside you.
Start World War III. Report at length on its socio-
political effects, if any.
11. EPISTEMOLOGY: Take a position for or against truth. Prove the validity of
your stand.
12. PHYSICS: Explain the nature of matter. Include in your answer an
evaluation of the impact of the development of mathematics on
that of science.
13. PHILOSOPHY: Sketch the development of human thought, and estimate its
significance. Compare with the development of any other
kind of thought.
14. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Describe in detail. Be objective and specific.
From the
JOKIN' AROUND DISK
by
LEEJAN ENTERPRISES
P.O. Box 66. Happy Valley.
South Australia. 5159.