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Final Examination
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Instructions: Read each question carefully. Answer all questions.
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Time limit - 4 hours. Begin immediately.
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HISTORY. Describe the history of the papacy from its origins to the present
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day, concentrating especially but not exclucively, on its social,
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political, economic, religious, and philosophical impact on Europe,
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Asia, America, and Africa. Be brief, concise, and specific.
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MEDICINE. You have been provided with a razor blade, a piece of gauze, and a
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bottle of Scotch. Remove your appendix. Do not suture until your
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work has been inspected. You have fifteen minutes.
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PUBLIC SPEAKING. 2,500 riot-crazed aborigines are storming the classroom. Calm
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them. You may use any ancient language except Latin or Greek.
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BIOLOGY. Create life. Estimate the differences in subsequent human culture if
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this form of life had developed 500 million years earlier, with
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special attention to its probable effect on the English Parlimentary
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system. Prove your thesis.
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MUSIC. Write a piano concerto. Orchestrate and perform it with flute and drum.
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You will find a piano under your seat.
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PSYCHOLOGY. Based on your knowledge of their works, evaluate the emotional
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stability, degree of adjustment, and repressed frustrations of each
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of the following: Alexander of Aphrodisias, Ramses II, Gregory of
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Nicea, Hammurabi. Support your evaluation with quotations from
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each man's work, making appropriate references. It is not
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necessary to translate.
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SOCIOLOGY. Estimate the sociological problems which might accompany the end of
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the world. Construct an experiment to test your theory.
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MANAGEMENT SCIENCE. Define Management. Define Science. How do they relate?
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Why? Create a general algorithm to optimize all managerial
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decisions. Assuming an 1130 CPU supporting 50 terminals,
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each terminal to activate your algorithm; design the
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communications interface and all necessary control programs.
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ENGINEERING. The disassembled parts of a high-powered rifle have been placed in
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a box on your desk. You will also find an instruction manual,
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printed in Swahili. In ten minutes, a hungry Bengal tiger will
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be admitted into the room. Take whatever action you feel
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appropriate. Be prepared to justify your decision.
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ECONOMICS. Develop a realistic plan for refinancing the national debt. Trace
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the possible effects of your plan in the following areas: Cubism,
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the Donatist controversey, and the wave theory of light. Outline a
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method for preventing these effects. Criticize this method from all
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points of view, as demonstrated in your answer to the last question.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE. There is a red telephone on the desk beside you. Start
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World War III. Report at length on its socio-political
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effects, if any.
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EPISTEMOLOGY. Take a position for or against truth. Prove the validity of your
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position.
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PHYSICS. Explain the nature of matter. Include in your answer an evaluation of
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the impact of the development of mathematics and science.
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PHILOSOPHY. Sketch the development of human thought; estimate its significance.
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Compare with the development of any other kind of thought.
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GENERAL KNOWLEDGE. Describe in detail. Be objective and specific.
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EXTRA CREDIT. Define the Universe; give three examples.
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(d) 1983 RH@SF@TRW (The Real World)
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