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GRADUATE QUALIFYING EXAM
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Instructions: Read each question carefully. Answer all questions.
Time limit: four hours. Begin immediately.
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History: 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.
Medicine: You have been 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 have fifteen 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.
Literature: Compose an epic poem based on the events of your own life
in which you see and footnote allusions from T.S. Eliot, Keats, Chaucer,
Dante, Norse mythology and the Marx Brothers. Critique your poem with a
full discussion of its metrics.
Music: Write a piano concerto. Orchestrate and perform it with a flute
and drum. You will find a piano under your seat.
General 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, Hammurabi. Support your evaluation with quotations from each
man's work, making appropriate references. It is not necessary to
translate.
Applied Psychology: Employing principles from the major schools of
psychoanalytic thought, successfully subject yourself to analysis. Make
appropriate personality changes, bill yourself and fill out all medical
insurance forms. Now do the same to the person seated to your left.
Philosophy: Sketch the development of human thought; estimate its
significance. Compare with the development of any other kind of thought.
Logic: Using accepted methodology, prove all four of the following:
that love is happiness, that the universe is infinite, that there is not
a little man in the refrigerator that turns out the light when the door
is closed, and that you are the person taking this exam. Now disprove
all of the above. Be specific; show all work.
Sociology: Estimate the sociological problems which might accompany the
end of the world. Design and implement an experiment to test your
theory.
Computer Science: Define computer. Define science. How do they
relate? Why? Create a generalized algorithm to optimize all managerial
decisions. Assuming an 1130 CPU supporting 50 terminals, use 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 appropriate. Be
prepared to justify your actions.
Economics: Develop a realistic plan for refinancing the national debt.
Trace the possible effects of your plan on the following: Cubism, the
Donatist controversy, the wave theory of light. Outline a plan 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 behind you.
Start World War III. Report at length on its socio-political effects,
if any.
Epistemology: Take a position for or against the truth. Prove the
validity of your position.
Physics: Explain the nature of matter. Include in your answer an
evaluation of the impact of the development of mathematics on science.
Agricultural Science: Outline the steps involved in breeding your own
super high yield, all weather strain of wheat. Describe its chemical
and physical properties and estimate its impact on world food supplies.
Construct a model for dealing with worldwide surpluses. Write your
Nobel Prize acceptance speech.
Reading Comprehension: (three minute time test) Read everything before
doing anything. Put your name in the upper right hand corner of this
exam. Circle the word name in sentence three. Sign your name under the
title of this paper, after the title write "yes, yes, yes." Put an X in
the lower left hand corner of this paper. Draw a triangle around the X
you just put down. On the back of this paper multiply 703x668. Loudly
call your name when you get to this point. If you think you have
followed directions carefully to this point call out "I have." Punch
three small holes in the top of this paper. If you are the first person
to get this far, call out "I am the first person to this point, I am
leading in following directions." On the reverse side of this paper add
8950 and 9850. Put a circle around your answer and put a square around
the circle. Not that you have finished reading carefully, do only
sentence two.
Astronomy: Define the universe. Give three examples.
General Knowledge: Describe in detail. Be objective and specific.
Extra Credit: Write today's date--in Metric.
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