I know many poeple are busy doing final exams right now, so here's a 
practice test everyone can take.

~~FINAL EXAM~~

INSTRUCTIONS:   
     Read each question carefully.  Answer all questions.  Time 
     limit: 4 hours.  Begin immediately.

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 philosophica
        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 appendix.  Do not suture
        until your work has been inspected.  You have fifteen minutes.

 PUBLIC SPEAKING:
        2500 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 it probable effect on the 
        English parliamentary system.  Prove your thesis.

MUSIC:
        Write a piano concerto.  Orchestrate and perform it with a
        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 Aphrodisias, Rameses
        II, Gregory of Nicia, Hammurabi.  Support your evaluation 
       with quotations from each man's work, making appropriate 
       references. It is not necessary to translate.

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

ENGINEERING:
        The disassembled parts of a high-powered rifle have been
        placed on your desk.  You will also find an instruction
        manual, printed in Swahili.  In 10 minutes a hungry Bengal
        tiger will be admitted to the room.  Take whatever action you
        feel appropriate.  Be prepared to justify your decision.

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 from all possible points of view, as
        demonstrated in your answer to the last question.

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.

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

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 
       significance.  Compare with the development of any other kind
       of thought.

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE:
       Describe in detail.  Be objective and specific.  

If you finish early turn your paper in at the table at the front of
the room.
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