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- JOKIN' AROUND DISK
- by
- LEEJAN ENTERPRISES
- P.O. Box 66. Happy Valley.
- South Australia. 5159.
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- TEST FOR SYSTEM ANALYIST
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- INSTRUCTIONS: Read each question carefully. Answer all questions. You have
- Four hours. Begin immediately.
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- 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.
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- 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
- your work until it has been inspected. You have 15 minutes.
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- 3. PUBLIC SPEAKING: 2500 riot-crazed aborigines are storming the room. Calm
- them. You may use any ancient language except Latin or
- Greek.
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- 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.
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- 5. MUSIC: Write a piano concerto. Orchestrate and perform it with flute and
- drum. You will find a piano under your seat.
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- 6. 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 Nicea and
- Hammurabi.
- Support your evaluation with quotations from each man's work,
- making appropriate references. It is not necessary to
- translate.
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- 7. SOCIOLOGY: Estimate the sociological problems that might accompany the
- end of the world. Construct an experiment to test your
- theory.
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- 8. ENGINEERING: The disassembled parts of a high-powered rifle have been
- placed on your desk. You will also find and instruction
- manual, printed in Swahilli. 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.
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- 9. ECONOMICS: Develop a realistic plan to refinance the national debt. Trace
- the possible effects of your plan in the following areas:
- Cubism, the Donatist controversy, and 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.
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- 10. 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.
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- 11. EPISTEMOLOGY: Take a position for or against truth. Prove the validity of
- your stand.
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- 12. PHYSICS: Explain the nature of matter. Include in your answer an
- evaluation of the impact of the development of mathematics on
- that of science.
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- 13. PHILOSOPHY: Sketch the development of human thought, and estimate its
- significance. Compare with the development of any other
- kind of thought.
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- 14. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Describe in detail. Be objective and specific.
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- From the
- JOKIN' AROUND DISK
- by
- LEEJAN ENTERPRISES
- P.O. Box 66. Happy Valley.
- South Australia. 5159.
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