Instructions: Read each question carefully.  Answer all questions.
   
   Time limit: 2 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 you work has been inspected.  You have fifteen
   minutes.
   
   Public Speaking: 2500 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 knowledge of their works, evaluate the
   emotional stability, degree of adjustment, and repressed
   frustrations of each of the following: Alexander of Aphrodisis,
   Rameses II, Hammuarabi.  Support your evaluation 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.
   
   Engineering: The disassembled parts of a high-powered rifle have
   been placed on your desk.  You will also find an instruction
   manual, printed in Swahili.  In 10 minutes, a hungry bengal tiger
   will be admitted to the room.  Take whatever action you feel
   necessary.  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 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.
   
   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 stand.
   
   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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