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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.
