| A Really Tough Final Exam
Instructions: Read each question carefully. Answer all questions.
Time Limit: 4 hours. Begin immediately.
1) H I S T O R Y
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) M E D I C I N E
You have been provided with a razor blade, a piece of gauze, and a bot- tle of Scotch.
Remove your appendix. Do not suture until your work has been inspected. You have 15
minutes.
3) P U B L I C S P E A K I N G
Twenty-five hundred riot-crazed aborigines are storming the classroom. Calm them. You
may use any ancient language except Latin or Greek.
4) B I O L O G Y
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) M U S I C
Write a piano concerto. Orchestrate and perform it with flute and drum. You will find a
piano under your seat.
6) P S Y C H O L O G Y
Based on your degree of 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, Hammurabi. Support your evaluations with
quotations from each man's work, making appropriate references. It is not necessary to
translate.
7) S O C I O L O G Y
Estimate the sociological problems which might accompany the end of the world.
Construct an experiment to test your theory.
8) M A N A G E M E N T S C I E N C E
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.
9) E N G I N E E R I N G
The disassembled parts of a high-powered rifle have been placed in a box onyour 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.
Be prepared to justify your decision.
10) E C O N O M I C S
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.
11) P O L I T I C A L S C I E N C E
There is a red telephone on the desk beside you. Start World War III. Report at length
on its socio-political effects, if any.
12) E P I S T E M O L O G Y
Take a position for or against truth. Prove the validity of your position.
13) P H Y S I C S
Explain the nature of matter. Include in your answer an evaluation of the impact of the
development of mathematics on science.
14) P H I L O S O P H Y
Sketch the development of human thought; estimate its significance. Compare with the
development of any other kind of thought.
15) G E N E R A L K N O W L E D G E
Describe in detail. Be objective and specific.
* * E X T R A C R E D I T * *
Define the universe; give three examples.
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