Final Exam - (nf)
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uiucdcs!ray Jul 30 15:16:00 1982
INSTRUCTIONS: Read each question carefully. Answer all questions. Time Limit -
4 hours. Begin immediately.
PUBLIC SPEAKING: 2,000 riot-crazed aborigines are storming the classroom. Calm
them. You may use any ancient language except Latin or Greek.
MUSIC: Write a piano concerto. Orchestrate and perform it with flute and drum.
You will find a piano under your seat.
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 Aphrodidias, Rameses II, Gregory of Nicea, Hammurabi.
Support your evaluation with quotations from each man's works, making ap-
propriate references. It is not necessary to translate.
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 deci-
sion.
ECONOMICS: Develop a realistic plan for refinancing the national debt. Trace
the possible effects of your plan on the following areas: Cubism, the Donatist
controversy, the wave theory of light. Outline a method of preventing these
effects. Criticize this method from all possible points of view.
POLITICAL SCIENCE: There is a red telephone on the desk beside you. Start
World War III. Report at length on its socio-political effect, if any.
PHYSICS: Explain the nature of matter. Include in your answer an evaluation of
the impact of the development of mathematics on science.
PHILOSOPHY: Sketch the development of human thought; estimate its signifi-
cance. Compare with the development of any other kind of thought.
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, America, Asia, and
Africa. Be brief and concise.
BIOLOGY: Create life. Estimate the differences in subsequent human culture if
this form of life had existed 10,000 years earlier, with special attention to
its probable effect on the English parliamentary system. Prove your thesis.
EPISTEMOLOGY: Take a position for or against truth. Prove the validity of your
position.
MEDICINE: You have been provided with a razor blade, a piece of gauze, and a
bottle of alcohol. Remove your appendix. Do not suture until your work has
been inspected. You have 15 minutes.
THEOLOGY: Define the "historical position" of the Lutheran Church Missouri
Synod - in 25 words or less.
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Describe in detail. Be objective and specific.
EXTRA CREDIT: Define the universe; give 3 examples.
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