Qualifying Examination Instructions: Read each question carefully.

Qualifying Examination

Instructions: Read each question carefully. Answer all ques-
tions. Time Limit - 4 hours. Begin immediately.

1. 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 philo-
sophical impact on Europe, Asia, America, and Africa. Be
brief, concise, and specific.

2. Medicine

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 fifteen
minutes.

3. Public Speaking

2,500 riot-crazed aborigines are storming the classroom.
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 its probable effect on
the English parliamentary system. Prove your thesis.

5. Music

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

6. Psychology

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 Aphrodi-
sias, 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.

7. Sociology

Estimate the sociological problems which might accompany the
end of the world. Construct an experiment to test your
theory.

8. Management Science

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 commun-
ications interface and all necessary control programs.

9. Engineering

The disassembled parts of a high-powered rifle have been
placed in a box on your desk. You will also find an instruc-
tion manual, printed in Swahili. In ten minutes a hungry
Bengal tiger will be admitted to the room. Take whatever
action you feel is appropraite. Be prepared to justify your
decision.

10. Economics

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. Criti-
cize 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.

11. Political Science

There is a red telephone on the desk beside you. Start World
War III. Report at length on its socio-political effects,
if any.

12. Epistemology

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

13. Physics

Explain the nature of matter. Include in your answer an
evaluation of the impact of the development of mathematics
on science.

14. Modern Physics:

Disprove Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Construct an
experiment to prove your position.

15. Philosophy

Sketch the development of human thought; estimate its signi-
ficance. Compare with the development of any other kind of
thought.

16. Foreign Affairs:

It has recently been suggested (especially after Black
Monday) that only a foreign war can restore America's lost national con-
sensus. Propose the ideal opponent(s) for the US in such a war, and how
the conflict might be engineered so that US would seem not to be the ag-
ressor in the situation. Discuss the pros and cons.

17. Art:

Explain Mona Lisa's smile.

18. Juris Prudence:

In Part 2 of Shakespeare's "Henry VI", Jack Cade, the
leader of the populist revolt, proposes that the first order of business
following a successful coup d'e'tat could be to "kill all the lawyers".
In light of the present populist mood in the United States, assess the
utility and any potential impact of such a policy today.

19. Religion:

Assuming the Judeo-Christian moral structure, take the stand
for Adam and Eve, and the eating of the forbidden fruit. Explain your
position fully to a Chassidic Rabbi, and answer his arguments. An Angl-
ican bishop will moderate this debate.

20. General Knowledge

Describe in detail. Be objective and specific.


Extra Credit

Define the Universe; give three examples.