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a REAL test

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From: Elecia
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 00:15
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INSTRUCTIONS:  Read each question carefull.  Answer all questions.  You have
four hours.  Begin immediately.

HISTORY:  Describe the history of the Papacy from its orgins to the present,
concentrating especially, but not exclusively, on its social, political,
economic, religious, philosophical impact on Europe, Asia, America, and
Africa.  Be brief, concise, and specific.

MEDECINE:  You have been provided a razor blade, a piece of gauze, and a
bottle of Scotch.  Remove your appendix. Do not suture your work until it
has been inspected.  You have fifeteen minutes.
 
PUBLIC SPEAKING:  2,500 riot-crazed aborigines are storming the class room.
Calm them.  You may use any 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 Parlimantary system.  Prove
your thesis.

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

PYSCHOLOGY:  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, Rameses II, Gregory of Nicee,
Hammurabi.  Support your evaluation with quotations form each man's work,
making appropriate refences.  It is not necessary to translate.

SOCIOLOGY: Estimat the sociological problems that 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 an IBM computer supporting 50 terminals, each terminal
to activate your algorithm, design the communication interface and all
necesary control programs.

ENGINEERING:  The dissembled parts of a high-powered rifle have been placed
into a box on your desk.  You will also find an instruction manual printed
in Swahili.  In ten minutes, a hungary Bengal tiger will be admitted to the
room.  Take whatever action you feel 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: Cubanism, the
Donetist contraversy, and the wave theory of light.  Outline a method for
preventing these effects.  Criticize this method from all possible points of
view.  Point out hte deficiencies of your point of view as demonstrated in
you answer to the last question.

POLITICAL SCIENCE: The is a Red telephone book on the desk beside you.
Start World War III.  Report at length on its socio-political effects, if
any.

EXTRA CREDIT: Define the Universe.  Give three examples.
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