On (06 Jun 05) Walter Bowen wrote to All...
 WB> Is this getting out?

You call THAT a test?

That's not a test!

THIS is a test:

Qualification Exam to Post on Fidonet's ABLED Echo
Instructions

READ EACH QUESTION CAREFULLY.
ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS.
TIME LIMIT 4 HOURS

BEGIN NOW !!!


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 philosophical 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
2500 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 preform it with flute and drum.


6 PSYCHOLOGY
Based on your knowledge of their works, evaluate the emotional
stability, degree of adjustment, and repressed frustration of each of
the following:
   ALEXANDER of APHRODIASIAS
   RAMSES II
   GREGORY of NICEA
   HAMMURABI
Support your evaluation 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?  Create a
generalized algorithm to optimize all managerial decisions.  Assuming a
1130 CPU supporting 50 terminals, each terminal to activate your
algorithm, design the communications interface and all necessary control
programs.


9 ENGINEERING
The disassembled parts of a high powered rifle are in a box on your
desk. The instruction manual is in SWAHILI.  In ten minutes a hungry
Bengal tiger will be let into the room.  Take whatever action you feel
appropriate.  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.  Criticize this method
from all possible points of view, as demonstrated in your last answer to
the last question.


11 POLITICAL SCIENCE
There is a RED telephone on the desk in front of you.  Start World War
III. Report at length on it's sociopolitical 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 PHILOSOPHY
Sketch the development of human thought.  Estimate its significance.
Compare with the development of any other kind of thought.


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


16 EXTRA CREDIT
Define the universe.  Give three examples

Because I care,
<+]::-{)}  (Cyberpope(the Bishop of ROM!))

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