Instructions: Read each question carefully. Answer all questions. Time Limit: 4 hours.
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
Twenty-five hundred 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.
MUSIC
Write a piano concerto. Orchestrate and perform it with flute and drum.
You will find a piano under your seat.
PSYCHOLOGY
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.
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 managerial
decisions. Assuming an 1130 CPU supporting 50 terminals, each terminal to
activate your algorithm; 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. 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 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.