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Final Examination
INSTRUCTIONS: Read each question carefully. Answer all questions.
Time limit is four 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
15 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
development if this form of life had developed 500 million
years earlier, with special attention to its probable
effects on the English Parliamentary system. Prove your
thesis.
MUSIC: Write a piano concerto. Perform it with flute and drum. You
will find a piano under your seat.
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 Nicea, Hammuraby.
Support your evaluations with quotations from each man's
work, making appropriate references. It is not
necessary to translate.
SOCIOLOGY: Estimate the sociological problems which 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 management decisions. Assuming an
1130 CPU supporting 50 terminals, each terminal
to activate your algorithm independently, design
the communications interface and all necessary
control programs.
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 is appropriate and
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 Donationist Controversy, and
the Wave Theory of Light. Outline a method for
preventing those effects, criticize this method from all
points of view, and point out the deficiencies of your
point of view, as demonstrated in your answer to the last
question.
POLITICAL SCIENCE: There's 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 or 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.
EXTRA CREDIT: Define the universe. Give three examples.