Final Exam Questions
Final Exam
Instructions: Read each question carefully. Answer all questions completely. This is a closed-book examination.
Time limit: 2 hours.
HISTORY
Describe the history of government 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.
ECONOMICS
Part I: Describe in four hundred words or less how the Great Depression could have been prevented. Part II: Develop a realistic plan for refinancing the national debt.
PUBLIC SPEAKING
2,500 riot-crazed aborigines are storming the classroom. Calm them. You may use any ancient language except Latin or Greek.
SOCIOLOGY
Estimate the sociological problems which might accompany the end of the world. Construct an experiment to test your theory.
GOVERNMENT
Outline a four year plan for solving all problems in America. Test the effectiveness of your plan by getting elected as President and maintaining at least an 80% approval rating throughout all four years in office. You do not have to be re-elected at the end of your term to receive full credit.
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.
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.
MEDICINE
You have been provided with a razor blade, a piece of gauze, and a bottle of Scotch. Remove your own appendix. Do not suture until your work has been inspected. You have fifteen minutes.
BIOLOGY
Create life. Estimate the differences in subsequent human culture if this form of life had developed five hundred-thousand years earlier, with special attention to the probable effects on the English Parliamentary system. Prove your thesis.
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Create your own programming language, then use it to write an operating system that is fully compatible with all software and hardware produced since 1981.
PHYSICS
Explain the nature of matter. Include in your answer an evaluation of the impact of the development of mathematics on science.
ASTROPHYSICS
Given the initial position and velocity of each particle of matter at 10^-42 seconds after the Big Bang, construct an exact model of the universe at the following moments in time: t=64 seconds after the Big Bang, t=1.42 million years, and at t=02:39GMT on 12/01/2007.
CHEMISTRY
You must identify a poison sample which you will be given. 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.
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Using off-the-shelf components, design a spacecraft to put three astronauts on Mars and return them safely to Earth. To receive full credit, you must also design any support structures, recovery vehicles, and tracking stations that may be needed.
EPISTEMOLOGY
Take a position for or against the truth. Prove the validity of your position.
LOGIC
Defend the importance of logic. To avoid circular reasoning, you may not use logic in your argument.
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.
EXTRA CREDIT
Define the Universe. Give three examples.
most of these are actual questions given out to college students in the states
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