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><TITLE> College finals from Hell </TITLE>
><H1> College finals from Hell </H1>
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>Instructions: Read each question carefully.  Answer all questions.<BR>
>Time Limit: 4 hours.<BR>
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><DT>HISTORY
><DD>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.
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><DT>MEDICINE
><DD>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.
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><DT>PUBLIC SPEAKING
><DD>Twenty-five hundred riot-crazed aborigines are storming the
>classroom.  Calm them.  You may use any ancient language except Latin or
>Greek.
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><DT>BIOLOGY
><DD>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.
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><DT>MUSIC
><DD>Write a piano concerto.  Orchestrate and perform it with flute and
>drum.  You will find a piano under your seat.
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><DT>PSYCHOLOGY
><DD>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.
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><DT>SOCIOLOGY
><DD>Estimate the sociological problems which might accompany the end of
>the world.  Construct an experiment to test your theory.
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><DT>MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
><DD>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.
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><DT>ENGINEERING
><DD>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.
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><DT>ECONOMICS
><DD>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.
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><DT>POLITICAL SCIENCE
><DD>There is a red telephone on the desk beside you. Start World War
>III.  Report at length on its socio-political effects, if any.
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><DT>EPISTEMOLOGY
><DD>Take a position for or against truth.  Prove the validity of your
>position.
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><DT>PHYSICS
><DD>Explain the nature of matter.  Include in your answer an evaluation
>of the impact of the development of mathematics on science.
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><DT>PHILOSOPHY
><DD>Sketch the development of human thought; estimate its significance.
>Compare with the development of any other kind of thought.
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><DT>GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
><DD>Describe in detail.  Be objective and specific.
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><DT>*** EXTRA CREDIT ***
><DD>Define the universe; give three examples.
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