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Qualifying Examination
Instructions: Read each question carefully. Answer all questions.
Time limit - 4 hours. Begin immediately.
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.
MEDICINE: You have been provided with a razor blade, a piece of gauze, and a
bottle of scotch. Remove your appendix. Do not suture until your work has
been inspected. You have fifteen minutes.
PUBLIC SPEAKING: 2,500 riot-crazed aborigines are storming the classroom.
Calm them. You may use any ancient language except Latin or Greek.
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.
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, Ramses II, Gregory of Nicaea, Hammurabi.
Support your evaluation with quotations from each man's work, making
appropriate references. It is not necessary to translate.
SOCIOLOGY: Estimate the sociological problems that might accompany the end
of the world. Construct an experiment to test your theory.
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE: Define Management. Define Science. How do they relate?
Why? Create a generalized algorithm to optimize all managerial decisions.
Assuming an 1130 CPU supporting 50 terminals, each terminal to activate your
algorithm, design the communications interface and all necessary control
programs.
MUSIC: Write a piano concerto. Orchestrate and perform it with flute and drum.
You will find a piano under your seat.
ENGINEERING: The disassembled parts of a high-powered rifle have been placed
in a box on your desk. You will also find an instruction manual, printed in
Swahili. 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.
ECONOMICS: Develop a realistic plan for refinancing the national debt. Trace
the possible effects of your plan in the following areas: Cubism, the Donatist
controversy, 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.
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.
EPISTEMOLOGY: Take a position for against truth. Prove the validity of your
position.
PHYSICS: Explain the nature of matter. Include in your answer an evaluation
of the impact of the development of mathematics on science.
PHILOSOPHY: Sketch the development of human thought. Estimate its
significance. Compare with the development of any other kind of thought.
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Describe in detail. Be objective and specific.
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EXTRA CREDIT: Define the Universe. Give three examples.