Excerpt from Portraits of Despair

A) If you can't be happy where you
are, you can't be happy anywhere.
Discuss, with samples from your
own life.


B) Hell is Other People. Do you
agree? Demonstrate how this might
or might not apply in the case of:

. . . i) The Armenian Massacres of 1915

. . . ii) Either the life of
Algernon Charles Swinburne
or the death of Walt Disney

. . . iii) The darkness before creation

(Answer two of three)


C) Construct an analogy using the
saline nature of either tears or the
sea and the salt that makes a dish
palatable and adds piquance and
savour.

(Examinees are encouraged to refer
to either the third daughter of Llyr
or Lot's wife, but not both)


D) If I was God I would
abolish...............

Complete in 250 words or less.
Physical practicalities and human
nature are to be respected. The Law
of Conservation of Happiness may
not be violated.

(Counts as 50% of your final score.)