If law school-style exams covered other subjects …
THE COMPREHENSIVE BLUE BOOK TEST
Instructions: Read each question carefully. Answer all questions. Time limit: 3 hours. BEGIN IMMEDIATELY.
1. 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.
2. Economics
Develop a realistic plan for refinancing the national debt. Trace the possible effects of your plan on these areas: Cubism, Donatist controversy, and the wave theory of light.
3. Engineering
The unassembled parts of a high-powered rifle have been placed in a box on your desk. Included is an instruction manual written in Swahili. In ten minutes a hungry Bengal tiger will be admitted into the room. Take whatever action you feel is appropriate. Be prepared to justify your decision.
4. Epistemology
Take a position for or against truth. Prove the validity of your position.
5. General Knowledge
Describe in detail, briefly.
6. 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.
7. Managerial Science
Define management. Define science. How do they relate. Create a generalized algorithm to optimize all managerial decisions. Assuming an 1130 CPU supporting 50 terminals, each terminal to activate your algorithm, design the communications interface and all necessary control problems.
8. 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 15 minutes.
9. Music
Write a piano concerto. Orchestrate and perform it with flute and drum. You will find a piano under your seat.
10. Philosophy
Sketch the development of human thought. Estimate its significance. Compare with the development of any other kind of thought.
11. Physics
Explain the nature of matter. Include in your answer an evaluation of the impact of the development of mathematics on science.
12. 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.
13. Psychology
Based on your knowledge of their works, evaluate the emotional stability, degree of adjustment, and repressed frustrations of each: Alexander of Aphrodisias, Ramses II, Gregory of Nicea, and Hammurabi. Support your evaluation with quotations from each man’s work. It is not necessary to translate.
14. Public Speaking
Two thousand drug-crazed aborigines are storming the classroom. Calm them. You may use any ancient language except Latin or Greek.
15. Sociology
What sociological problems might accompany the end of the world? Construct an experiment to test your theory.
* Extra Credit
Define the universe. Give three examples.
* * For The Highly Motivated
Define law. Define justice. Discuss similarities, if any.