Instructions: Read each question carefully. Answer all questions.
Time Limit: 4 hours. Begin immediately.
1)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.
2)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.
3) PUBLIC SPEAKING
Twenty-five hundred riot-crazed aborigines are storming the classroom. Calm
them. You may use any ancient language
except Latin or Greek.
4) 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.
5) MUSIC
Write a piano concerto. Orchestrate and perform it with flute and drum. You
will find a piano under your seat.
6) 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.
7) SOCIOLOGY
Estimate the sociological problems which might accompany the end of the
world. Construct an experiment to test your
theory.
8) 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.
9) 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.
10) 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.
11)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.
12) EPISTEMOLOGY
Take a position for or against truth. Prove the validity of your position.
13) PHYSICS
Explain the nature of matter. Include in your answer an evaluation of the
impact of the development of mathematics on
science.
14) PHILOSOPHY
Sketch the development of human thought; estimate its significance. Compare
with the development of any other kind of
thought.
