The Final Exam

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Computer Science: Write a fifth-generation computer language.  Using 
this language, write a computer program to finish the rest of this
exam for you.

History: Describe the history of the papacy from its origins to the 
present day, concentrating on its social, political, economic, 
religious, and philosophical impact on Europe, America, Asia, and 
Africa.  Be brief, concise, yet specific.

Electrical Engineering: You will be placed in a nuclear reactor and 
given a partial copy of the electrical layout.  The electrical system 
has been tampered with.  You have seventeen minutes to find the problem 
and correct it before the reactor melts down.

Pre-Med: You will be provided with a rusty razor blade, a piece of 
gauze, and a full bottle of Scotch.   Remove your appendix.  Don't 
suture until your work as been inspected.  You have 15 minutes.

Public Speaking: Twenty-five hundred riot-crazed aboriginies are 
storming the classroom.  Calm them.  You may use any ancient language 
except Latin, Hebrew, or Greek.

Biology: Create life.  Estimate the differences in subsequent human 
culture if this life form had developed 500,000 years earlier, with 
special attention to the effect, if any, on the English parliamentary 
system circa 1750.  Prove your thesis. 

Civil Engineering: This is a practical test of your design and building 
skills.  With the boxes of toothpicks and glue present, build a platform 
that will support your weight when you and your platform are suspended 
over a vat of nitric acid.

Music: Write a full piano concerto.  Orchestrate and perform it with a 
clarinet and drum.  You will find a piano under your seat.

Psychology: Based on your knowledge of their early works, evaluate the 
emotional stability, degree of adjustment, and repressed frustrations of 
each of the following: Alexander of Aphrodisias, Ramses II, and Gregory 
of Nicea.  Support your evaluation with quotations from each man's work, 
making appropriate references.  It is not necessary to translate.

Chemistry: You must identify a poison sample which you will find at your 
lab table.  All necessary equipment has been provided.  There are two 
beakers at your desk, one of which holds the antidote.  If the wrong 
substance is used, it causes instant death.  You may begin as soon as 
the professor injects you with a sample of the poison.  (We feel this 
will give you an incentive to find the correct answer.) 

Sociology: Estimate the sociological problems which might be associated 
with the end of the world.  Construct an experiment to test your theory.

Mechanical Engineering: The disassembled parts of a howitzer have been 
placed in a box on your desk.  You will also find an instruction manual, 
printed in Machine Language.  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: Describe in four hundred words or less what you would have 
done to prevent the Great Depression.

Mathematics: Derive the Euler-Cauchy equations using only a straightedge 
and compass.  Discuss in detail the role these equations had on 
mathematical analysis in Europe during the 1800s.

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.

Religion: Perform a miracle.  Creativity will be judged.

Art: Given one eight-count box of crayons and three sheets of notebook 
paper, recreate the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.  Skin tones should be 
true to life.

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

Metaphysics: Describe in detail the probable nature of life after death.  
Test your hypothesis.

Philosophy: Sketch the development of human thought and estimate  Its 
significance.  Compare with the development of any other kind of 
thought.

General Knowledge: Describe in detail.  Be specific.

Extra Credit: Define the universe, and give three examples.