Final Examination:
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Instructions:  Read each question carefully.  Answer all questions.  Time 
limit - 4 hours.  Begin immediately.

HISTORY.  Describe the history of the papacy from its origins to the present 
day, concentrating specifically 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 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 Aphrodisias, Ramses II, Gregory of Nicea, and 
Hammurabi.  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.

MANAGEMENT SCIENCE.  Define management.  Define science.  How do they relate?
Why?  Create a generalized algorithm to optimize all managerial decisions.  
Assuming a 130 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, 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 the sociopolitical 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 the 
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.
