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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 does Schelling say discrimination is?
(a) Willingness to be biased.
(b) Conscious awareness of a choice.
(c) Refusal to consider reason in a decision.
(d) Preference for one race over another.

2. What does Schelling say about the "closed model"?
(a) It predicts who will leave.
(b) It considers age alone.
(c) It considers more than age.
(d) It describes the factors that pull people out of a community.

3. What case does Schelling use to illustrate the difficulty of making an economic proposition?
(a) Raising the draft age.
(b) Ending the draft.
(c) Lowering the drinking age.
(d) Raising the drinking age.

4. What example does Schelling use to explain the closed system with a density enhancement?
(a) Distribution for a university.
(b) Distribution for a highway toll system.
(c) Distribution for a nursing home.
(d) Distribution for local co-op market.

5. How does the heating system parallel human behavior in Schelling's example?
(a) A voice distributes its energy into the environment around it.
(b) A vessel carries whatever hot or cold air or water runs through it.
(c) A rising variable alternatively over and under performs.
(d) A trait becomes more and more intense until it expresses itself in heat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What continuous variable does Schelling say parents could select for?

2. How does Schelling predict nations will behave with regard to nuclear arms control?

3. What can a closed system with a density enhancement include, in Schelling's analysis?

4. What does Schelling say is the goal of his model for describing segregation?

5. What does the heating-system-like aspect of human behavior seek, in Schelling's analysis?

(see the answer key)

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