EXAMINATION FOR CAPABLE ASSISTANT
+ Which month is best and why?
+ Take the overland route or a ship around? And (2) if possibility of bandits in mountain pass / pirates in straits – then which?
+ Shorthand: sad it has no use these days, or, it has a use! or never mind, it stinks.
+ Someone doesn’t like the great jazz singers of the mid twentieth century. How do we behave with/ trust such a person?
+ What book are you reading?
+ Do you occasionally put stones in your pocket? Why?
+ Why must we be friendly only to a point?
+ Which personal items should be of best quality?
+ Draw a map of your life, somehow.
+ If you had to appear in a photograph, would you want to be wearing a raincoat in 1948 or getting off a motorcycle in Cyprus in 1964 or standing on a Korean fishing boat in 1979 or sleeping under a bridge in Moscow this morning?
+ Someone of low quality wants to borrow something of yours, say, a book or a paring knife. Do you (1) let them borrow it, (2) give it them for good (it shall not be the same after they’ve had it), or (3) simply say no. What if you know it will get them out of a pinch?
+ Someone attempts to put you in his/her debt through purchasing you something without your permission (a drink, a coat, a roast chicken, a transit card, etcetera). Do you accept or not? What form would your analysis take?
+ Write a short plan for a bank heist.
