Conservatives intend to put a stop to representatives from the U.S. attending climate-change conferences. They have proposed the following test for all Administration officials nominated to ambassador (without portfolio) for international negotiations: INSTRUCTIONS: Read each question carefully. Answer all questions. Time limit: 4 hours. Begin imediately. 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 philisophical 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 aboriginies 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 its probable effect on the English parliamentary system. Prove your thesis. 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 impressed frustrations of each of the following: Alexander of Aphrodisias, Ramses 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 for preventing these effects. Criticize this method from all possible points of view. Point out the deficiencies in your point 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 how your explantion would have altered the development of mathematics in science. PHILOSOPHY: Sketch the development of human thought; estimate its significance in light of the theory of Julian Janes in “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”. Compare human thought with the development of any other kind of thought. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Describe in detail the contents of the Oxford English Dictionary. Be objective and specific.
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