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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: An Astonishing Sixty Years: The Legacy of Hiroshima.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What aspect of the history of nuclear weapons does Schelling describe?
(a) Evolving detonation technology.
(b) Changing attitudes toward them.
(c) Their increasing power.
(d) Treaties regulating them.

2. What does Schelling say the processes of separation, segregation, sharing, and mixing have in common?
(a) Individuals suffer the effects of what is really mass behavior.
(b) Aggregate behaviors influenced by individual decisions.
(c) Irrational behavior resulting in intelligible trends.
(d) Many chaotic events assuming order as they are narrated.

3. Where do social scientists chart binary choices?
(a) In schematics.
(b) In spreadsheets.
(c) In articles.
(d) In statistical analyses.

4. What does Schelling say is the best use of sorting and mixing models?
(a) Population and food supply.
(b) Residence or membership.
(c) Marriage and evolution.
(d) Free markets.

5. What does Schelling say about the number of genetic variations that can take place when a man and a woman have a baby?
(a) The number is limited by the parents' social class.
(b) The number is limited by the parents' genes.
(c) The number is limited by the parents' environment.
(d) The number is vast.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Schelling say social behavior can be considered a critical mass?

2. What is an externality?

3. What is an example of a prediction which Schelling says closed system modeling cannot make?

4. Under what condition, does Schelling say, would a black person feel more comfortable reading ads in a church bulletin?

5. What model of human behavior does Schelling say arms control follows?

(see the answer key)

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