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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 the heating-system-like aspect of human behavior seek, in Schelling's analysis?
(a) An appropriate level.
(b) Relief from tension.
(c) Perpetual comfort.
(d) Emptiness.

2. What does Schelling say is the importance of segregation and integration models?
(a) They identify an important phenomenon.
(b) They are useful in certain mathematical applications.
(c) They provide the tools for influencing population distribution
(d) They help us build conceptual models of more complex behavior like dating and marriage.

3. What is an example of a prediction which Schelling says closed system modeling cannot make?
(a) People will not settle in one place, but they will keep searching for places that meet different needs.
(b) People who want to live near family will act on other preferences, like not living near shopping malls.
(c) People who don't like dogs don't necessarily dislike dog owners.
(d) People who want to live with people of the same race generally like their neighbors.

4. Who was the successor to the President who dropped the bomb?
(a) Roosevelt.
(b) Eisenhower.
(c) Kennedy.
(d) Truman.

5. What additional factors does Schelling say contribute to population preferences?
(a) Maturity levels of individuals.
(b) Geographical factors.
(c) Individual quirks.
(d) Family pressures.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Schelling describe discrimination?

2. What example from human psychology does Schelling contrapose to conscious choice?

3. What does Schelling say can be included in closed models?

4. What does Schelling say would be the downside to chromosomal modification?

5. What does Schelling say about human desire?

(see the answer key)

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