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Graduating Senior Assessment Examination The Senior Exit Exam is a fifteen question test intended to assess your general knowledge. 1. HISTORY. Using diaries and letters you find in an old trunk write a concise essay which explains why history always seems to happen in the past. 2. LITERATURE. Randomly select a novel, and then demonstrate via the sub text that its modernist internal contradictions reveal a socially constructed bourgeois male oppression of women. 3. APPLIED MATHEMATICS. One urn contains 3 white balls and 2 white balls, a second 2 red balls and 1 white. If, without looking, you draw one ball from each urn what is the probability you will be bitten on the hand by a brown recluse spider. 4. PURE MATHEMATICS. Prove Fermat's Next to Last Theorem. 5. PHYSICAL SCIENCE. 6. BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. Construct an evolutionary model that explains why biologists developed evolutionary models. 7. MODERN LANGUAGES. With just the native phrases for "Where is the library?" and "Today is Wednesday" survive for two weeks in a foreign country. 8. JOURNALISM. Develop a liberal bias. 9. EDUCATION. Prepare an overhead slide showing that the problems in the public schools could be solved with less attention to subject matter and more attention to bulletin boards. Your facts do not need to be accurate, but they must be neatly presented. 10. PHILOSOPHY. Argue that this question does not exist. 11. POLITICAL SCIENCE. Identify two countries at the brink of war, and then call Jimmy Carter to prevent it. 12. SOCIOLOGY. Using SPSS, calculate the Pearson product moment correlation between a) a social group having more members and b) it getting larger. 13. MULTI-CULTURAL EDUCATION. Determine whether you are an oppressor or a victim. Feel the appropriate guilt or outrage. 14. COMPOSITION. In a three hundred word essay describe what you would have learned in college if you had paid attention in your classes. 15. CRITICAL THINKING AND PROBLEM SOLVING. Find a way to avoid answering this question while still getting credit for getting it right. (c) 2002
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