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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. How does Schelling describe the Golden Gate Bridge?
(a) As a static equilibrium.
(b) As an open system.
(c) As a semi-closed system.
(d) As a closed system.

2. What is the source of the final chapter in Micromotives and Macrobehavior?
(a) Schelling's dissertation.
(b) Schelling's class lecture notes.
(c) Schelling's Pulitzer lecture.
(d) Schelling's Nobel lecture.

3. What does Schelling use his lecture to an audience of 800 people to illustrate?
(a) Randomness.
(b) Spatial distribution.
(c) Economic theories of entertainment.
(d) Group dynamics.

4. Why does Schelling say the U.S. did not have to use nuclear weapons in Kuwait?
(a) They overwhelmed the Iraqis so easily.
(b) They had promised the United Nations not to.
(c) They did not find weapons of mass destruction there.
(d) They were bound by treaty not to.

5. How does Schelling say people are segregated?
(a) By their preference for Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton.
(b) By income and heritage.
(c) By college major and degree.
(d) By sex and age.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second thing Schelling says a social behavior model can be?

2. How can one gather information about the choice of the majority, in Schelling's example?

3. What does Schelling say people have a tendency to do?

4. What does Schelling say might be a demographic consequence of parents choosing their children's traits?

5. What does Schelling say about segregation?

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