CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ENTRANCE EXAMINATION INSTRUCTIONS

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CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
ENTRANCE EXAMINATION

INSTRUCTIONS:
Read each question carefully.
Answer all questions.
Time Limit: four hours.



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
Black 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 graded. You have fifteen minutes.


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 Chinese communist system.
Prove your thesis.


MUSIC -

Write a piano concerto. Orchestrate it.
You will find a piano under your seat.


PSYCHOLOGY -

Based on your knowledge of their works, evaluate the emotional
stability, degree of adjustment and represeed frustrations of each of the
following: Alexander of Aphrodoxis, Ramses II, Gregory of Nicia, and
Hammurabi. Support your evaluation with quotes from each man's work,
making appropriate refernces. It is not necessary to translate.


PUBLIC SPEAKING -

Three hundred 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. Conduct 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
Sanskrit. In ten minutes a hungry Begal tiger will be released into
the room.
Take appropriate action.


PHILOSOPHY -

Sketch the development of human thought. Estimate its significance.
Compare with the development of other kinds of thought.


POLITICAL SCIENCE -

There is a red telephone on the desk before you.
Start World War III.


ECONOMICS -

Establish cowrie shells as the world monetary standard. Head a
cartel on shell production and corner the market.


PHYSICS -

Trace the development of mathematics and its effect on the physical
sciences from the time of Neanderthal Man to the 21st Century.
Construct a nuclear weapon.
Detonate it.
Put it out.

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