Since the career panel may decide to administer written examinations for candidates seeking certification as professional Intelligence Officers, we are passing along these sample questions to help you prepare for the ordeal.
Typical Qualifying Examination
Read each question thoroughly. Answer all questions. Time limit - four hours.
History
Describe the history of all religions from their earliest origins to the present
day. Prove which is best in a manner that will convince all others.
Medicine
You will be given a razor blade, a piece of gauze, and a bottle of scotch. Remove
your own appendix. Do not suture until your work has been inspected. You will
have 15 minutes to complete this operation.
Public Speaking
2500 riot-crazed fanatics will be turned loose in a classroom with you. Calm
them. You may use any ancient language except Latin and Greek.
Biology
Create life. You are required to estimate the differences in subsequent human
culture if this life-form had developed 500 millions ago, with special attention
to the effects on our next election. Prove who would have been our next prime
minister and why.
Music
Write a piano concerto. Orchestrate it and perform it with flute and drum. You
will find a piano under your seat.
Psychology
Based on your knowledge of their works, evaluate their emotional stability,
degree of adjustment, and repressed frustrations of the following: Alexander,
Ramsesall, Gregory of Nicoa, Joan of Arc, and Hammurabi. Support your evaluation
with quotations from each person's work, making appropriate references. It is
not necessary to translate.
Sociology
Estimate the sociological problems which might accompany the end of the world.
Construct a full-scale experiment to test your theory.
Management Science
Define management and science. How do they relate? Create a generalized algorithm
that can be used to optimize all managerial decisions. Design the systems interface
and prepare all software necessary to program this algorithm on whatever computer
may be selected by the examiners.
Engineering
The disassembled parts of a high-powered rifle will be placed on your desk.
You will also find an instruction manual, printed in Swahili. In 10 minutes,
a hungary Bengal tiger will be admitted into your room. Take whatever action
you feel appropriate. Be prepared to justify your decision.
Economics
Develop a realistic plan for refinancing the National Debt. Trace the possible
effects on your planet, on the wave theory of light, and on the overcrowding
of citizens band radio channels.
Political Science
With a quarter that you will be given, go to any pay phone and start World War
III. Report on its socio-political effects, if any.
Epistemology
Take a position for or against truth. Prove the validity of your position.
Physics
Explain the nature of matter. Your answer must include an evaluation of the
impact of the development of mathematics and science, plus the possible effect
of electromagnetic radiation on global pollution and on the love life of radar
operators who spend long hours in that environment.
Philosophy
Sketch the development of human though; estimate its significance. Compare this
with the development of any other kinds of thought.
General Knowledge
Describe everything you know in detail. Be objective and specific.
Extra Credit
Define the universe and give three examples.