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  2. Medicine
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  4. Biology
  5. Music
  6. Psychology
  7. Sociology
  8. Engineering
  9. Geometry
  10. Economics
  11. Political Science
  12. Astronomy/ Cosmology
  13. Physics
  14. Philosophy
  15. General Knowledge

Demiurge Applicant Screening Examination

Instructions:  Read each question carefully.  Answer all questions completely.

Time Limit:  4 hours.  Begin immediately.

 

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 15 minutes.

 

3) PUBLIC SPEAKING

2500 riot-crazed aborigines are storming your location.  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.  Prove your thesis.

 

5) MUSIC

Write a piano concerto.  Orchestrate and perform it with flute and drum.  You will find a piano under your seat.

 

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, 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.

 

7) SOCIOLOGY

Estimate the sociological problems which might accompany the end of the world.  Construct an experiment to test your theory.

 

8)  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 to be appropriate.  Be prepared to justify your decision.

 

9)  GEOMETRY

Construct a working model of a Tessaract.   Utilize it to fold space and time in such a way that history, as we know it, is changed in a quantifiable manner.  Prove your results via Boolean Algebra, incorporating graphical algorhythms.  Convert to Base 2 and run again as a digital computer program.

 

10)  ECONOMICS

Develop a realistic plan for refinancing the National Debt while expanding Entitlements.

 

11)  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.

 

12  ASTRONOMY/COSMOLOGY

Demonstrate the practical advantages and disadvantages of exploring the universe via Faster-than-Light travel versus dimension jump-gates and wormholes.  Graph the impact of each on current levels of entropy and the eventual heat-death of the Universe.

 

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.

 

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