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Pledge Information: Final Exam Question Bank

   Pledges for Fall 2002, you must know the answers to all of the following questions for initiation! Be sure to begin working on them ahead of time, some answers are not in the pledge manual! Any brother will be able to assist you on them. Click here to download the questions in Microsoft Word format.
  1. Give the three objects of the fraternity in order and verbatim.
  2. What are the five obligations of a member?
  3. What are the characteristics of an ideal chapter?
  4. When and where was ACS founded?
  5. Give the names of the nine founding members of our fraternal order.
  6. Why did our founding members start ACS?
  7. Describe the first initiation.
  8. Who were the first two pledges/initiates?
  9. Where are ACS's national headquarters?
  10. List the Grand Chapter officers and office held.
  11. List the active chapters in the South Central District and where they are located.
  12. List the officers of the Beta Eta chapter and offices held.
  13. What date was Beta Eta founded?
  14. When and where were the first women initiated in the Fraternity?
  15. What are the Fraternity colors?
  16. What is the Fraternity flower, and why was it chosen?
  17. Draw the badge of our Order. Who is allowed to wear this symbol?
  18. Draw the flags of the National Chapter and the Beta Eta chapter. What distinguishes the two?
  19. Draw the Coat of Arms of the Fraternity. Who is allowed to wear this symbol?
  20. Name at least five Nobel Laureates of Alpha Chi Sigma.
  21. What is the Order of Altotus? Which two members are from Beta Eta?
  22. What is the John R. Kuebler Award? Who from Beta Eta has received this honor?
  23. Give the symbol, metal, planet, and day of the week associated with each of the seven planetary metals.
  24. What is the symbol on your pledge pin, and what is your opinion on why that particular symbol was chosen?
  25. What are the three main goals of alchemy?
  26. What is the Philosopher's Stone?
  27. What is the Elixir of Life? Draw the alchemical symbol of the Elixir of Life.
  28. What is the origin of alchemy?
  29. What is the origin of the word 'alchemy', and what does it mean?
  30. Who was Hermes Trismegistus? What does his name mean?
  31. What is the Emerald Tablet? What is supposedly written on it?
  32. Who was Paracelsus? What was his full name? What did he believe should be the goal of alchemy? What remedy did he place above others? By what manner did he believe is the only way for a scientist to learn?
  33. Who was Geber (Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayan), and what did he teach us?
  34. Who was Count Cagliostro? What can we learn from him? Who was his wife? Who was his mentor? What was his nickname as a small child?
  35. Who was Altotus and was type of animal accompanied him on his journies?
  36. Give a brief synopses of Wei Po-Yang. By what name has his dog become affectionately known?
  37. Draw Aristotle's transmutation diagram.
  38. Write the Greek alphabet (capital letters will suffice), and the English spelling of each letter.

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