Larry's Final Test

Instructions:
Read each question carefully. Answer all questions. Time limit four hours. Begin immediately. Work in numerical order( equipment remaining from question one may prove useful with questions three and six).

1. Medicine
You have been provided with a razor blade; a piece of gauss and a bottle of scotch. Remove your appendix. Do not suture until your work has been inspected. You have 15 minutes.

2. History
Describe the history of the papacy from it's origins to the present day, concentrating especially but not exclusively, on it's social,political, economic, religious, and philosophical impact on Europe, Asia, America, and Africa. Be brief, concise, and specific.

3. Public Speaking
Two thousand drug crazed aborigines are storming the classroom. Calm them. You may use any ancient language except latin or greek.

4. Biology
Create life. Estimate the difference in subsequent human culture if this form of life had been created 500 million years earlier, with special attention to its probable effect on the English parliamentary system.

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

6. 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 decision.

7. Sociology
What sociological problems 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? Create a generalized algorithm to optimize all managerial decisions. Assuming a 7600 cpu supporting 50 terminals, each terminal to activate your algorithm, design the communications interface and all necessary control problems.

9. Psychology
Based on your knowledge of their works, evaluate the emotional stability, degree of adjustment and repressed frustrations of each:
Alexander of Aphrodinias
Ramses II
Gregory of Nicea
Hammurabi

Support your evaluation with quotations from each man's work. it is not necessary to translate.

10. Economics
Develop a realistic plan for refinancing the national debt. Trace the possible effects of your plan on these areas:
Cubism
The Donatist Controversy
The Wave Theory of Light

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

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

13. Modern Physics
Produce element 107. Determine it's half-life.

14. Energy Resources
Construct a working fusion reactor.

15. Philosophy
Sketch the development of human thought; estimate it's significance. compare with the development of any other kind of thought.

16. General Knowledge
Describe in detail, briefly.

Extra Credit
Define the universe. Give three examples.