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

2. What vocabulary does Schelling use for "going along with the crowd"?
(a) Joining the decision of the majority.
(b) The democratic process.
(c) Doing one's own thing.
(d) Joining a self-restraining coalition.

3. What does Schelling say race discrimination can lead to?
(a) Race hatred.
(b) Harmful segregation.
(c) Economic discrimination.
(d) Violence.

4. What does Schelling say about offspring?
(a) They will probably look like their maternal grandfathers.
(b) They will probably look like their mothers.
(c) They will probably look like their paternal grandmothers.
(d) They will probably look like their fathers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do people affect each other's decisions where to sit in theater?

2. What does Schelling say about discrimination?

3. What does it mean if the median age is 45 in an open model?

4. What does Schelling say happens when the youngest ten percent of a population moves?

5. What does Schelling say the presence of a small group of black students in a college student body does for any economic propositions about the behavior of that student body?

(see the answer key)

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