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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What additional reason does Schelling give for the desire to sit in the back of a theater?
(a) People want to feel safe in the dark.
(b) People want to be prepared to flee.
(c) People want to watch people arrive.
(d) People want to be far from the stage.

2. What does Schelling say about the underlying motivation for segregation?
(a) It can be fairly ordinary.
(b) ItIt is inevitable.
(c) It is necessary.
(d) It is based in race or ethnic hatred.

3. What natural phenomenon does Schelling compare the economy to?
(a) An ant colony.
(b) An ocean ecosystem.
(c) A forest.
(d) Celestial bodies.

4. How does Schelling describe the system of skiers going up a lift and coming down the trails?
(a) As a closed system.
(b) As a transformative system.
(c) As a static system.
(d) As an open system.

5. How does Schelling describe a critical-mass behavior?
(a) Something that can only take place if there is a large audience to watch it.
(b) Something that cannot be stopped once it begins.
(c) Something that becomes self-sustaining once a certain number of people start to do it.
(d) Something that has to be restarted after a certain interval.

6. Which example does Schelling say complicates the prospect of arriving at a definitive proposition?
(a) A college with an unequal distribution of male and female students.
(b) A commodity whose price is volatile.
(c) A business with a number of different product lines.
(d) A population spread out over a wide geographical area.

7. How does Schelling say the success of society is evaluated?
(a) On the aggregate, not the individual level.
(b) In the health and success of individuals.
(c) In the welfare of the least successful individuals.
(d) In the success of the leaders and superior individuals.

8. What does Schelling say the "tipping" critical-mass model first described?
(a) Political change.
(b) New ethnicities moving into neighborhoods.
(c) Dust being drizzles onto scales.
(d) The boom-bust cycle in economics.

9. What does Schelling say a doctor administering measles vaccines found, that illustrates the human behavior Schelling is describing?
(a) Arranging to have children vaccinated meant negotiating with the oldest people in the villages.
(b) When measles began to disappear, mothers would stop having their babies vaccinated, and the disease would come back.
(c) Once they saw that the vaccine worked, mothers couldn't get enough of it for their children.
(d) Nothing could convince a certain percentage of the population to get vaccinated.

10. What does Schelling say is an atomic pile is an example of?
(a) A lemon model.
(b) A half-life model.
(c) A paradoxical process.
(d) A critical-mass model.

11. Under what condition, does Schelling say, would a black person feel more comfortable reading ads in a church bulletin?
(a) If the ads were placed by people of the same denomination.
(b) If the ads specified that race was not an issue.
(c) If the ads asked reasonable prices for goods being sold.
(d) If the ads were placed by black people.

12. What does Schelling say provides clear evidence of black versus white areas in American cities?
(a) Demography.
(b) First-hand observation.
(c) Maps.
(d) History books.

13. What does Schelling say constrains the social scientist's model for race segregation?
(a) Qualitative analysis.
(b) Historical analysis.
(c) Political analysis.
(d) Quantitative analysis.

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

15. What does Schelling say the farmer needs to know?
(a) Who will buy his milk.
(b) Who will take his milk to market.
(c) How much milk his cows are giving.
(d) How much it will cost the driver to take his milk to market.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say most people will say about their driving?

2. What does Schelling say discrimination is?

3. What does Schelling say about the frequency of pairs?

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

5. What does Schelling say the number of bikes stolen is almost identical to?

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