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                         Final Examination
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Read each question thoroughly.  Answer all questions.  Time limit is
four hours.

1.  HISTORY

Describe the history of all religions from their earliest origins to
the present day.  Prove which is best in a manner that will convince
all other religions.

2.  MEDICINE

You will be provided with a razor blade, a piece of gauze, and a bottle
of scotch.  Remove your own appendix.  Do not suture until your work
has been inspected.  You will have fifteen minutes.

3.  PUBLIC SPEAKING

2500 riot-crazed aborigines will be turned loose in the classroom with
you.  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 the probable effects on our next election.  Show who would
have been our next President and why.

5.  MUSIC

Write a piano concerto.  Orchestrate it and perform it with flute and
drum.  You will find a piano under your seat.

6.  PSYCHOLOGY

Based on your knowledge of their works, evaluate the political
stability, degree of adjustment, and repressed frustrations of each of
the following:  Alexander of Aphrodisias, Ramsesall, Gregory of Nicoa,
and 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 a full-scale experiment to test your theory.

8.  MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

Define management.  Define science.  How do they relate?  Why?  Create
a generalized algorithm that can be used to optimize all managerial
decisions.  Design the systems interface and prepare all software
necessary to program this algorithm on whatever computer may be
selected by the examiner.

9.  ENGINEERING

The disassembled parts of a high-powered rifle will be placed 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 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 on the wave theory of light and on the
overcrowding of citizens band radio channels.

11.  POLITICAL SCIENCE

Pick up the phone on the desk beside you and start World War III.
Report at length on its socio-political effects, if any.

12.  EPISTEMOLOGY

Take a position for or against the truth.  Prove the validity of your
position.

13.  PHYSICS

Explain the nature of matter.  Include in your answer an evaluation of
the impact of mathematics on science, plus the possible effect of
electromagnetic radiation on global pollution and on the love life of
radar operators who spend long periods in that environment.

14.  PHILOSOPHY

Sketch the development of human thought; estimate its significance.
Compare this with the development of other kinds of thought.

15.  GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Describe everything you know in detail.  Be objective and specific.

16.  EXTRA CREDIT

Define the universe.  Give three examples.