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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What example does Schelling use as an example of discrimination?
(a) Individual and mass.
(b) American and European.
(c) Boys and girls.
(d) Fish and fowl.

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

5. How does Schelling explain blacks and whites being excluded from each other's churches?
(a) Race hatred.
(b) Historical guilt.
(c) Jim Crow laws.
(d) Reciprocal behavior.

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

7. What fear does Schelling say informs the behavior that is ingrained in people's decisions where to sit in a theater?
(a) The fear of violent teachers.
(b) The fear of being involved.
(c) The fear of a pop quiz in class.
(d) The fear of being called on stage.

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

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

10. How does Schelling describe discrimination?
(a) As the opposite of the free market.
(b) As a two-fold distinction.
(c) As a court of opinion and rumor.
(d) As an absolute preference.

11. What does Schelling say distinguishes the sociologist from other scientists?
(a) He publishes in different journals.
(b) He uses non-mathematical data.
(c) He studies himself as well as his subject.
(d) He is involved in the life he is studying.

12. What does Schelling say governs each decision?
(a) Dread and awe.
(b) The collective unconscious.
(c) Longing and fear.
(d) Preferences and goals.

13. How does Schelling characterize the individual's relationship with the society?
(a) He tends to specialize, and not to see the influences that drive him.
(b) He strives for a full understanding of every part.
(c) He tends to organize with others in his similar situation.
(d) He does not need to know how it works, he only has to perform his part.

14. What does Schelling say about segregation?
(a) It is always at least unconsciously deliberate.
(b) Sometimes it is deliberate, but not always.
(c) It is usually harmless.
(d) It is generally an emotional expression of the collective unconscious.

15. What does Schelling say is the result if aggregate behavior results from a small number of variables?
(a) Conflict.
(b) Doubt.
(c) Certainty.
(d) Faith.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say race discrimination can lead to?

2. Schelling says that it is hard to draw the line between "individually motivated" segregation and what?

3. What does Schelling say provides clear evidence of black versus white areas in American cities?

4. How does Schelling say people are segregated?

5. What does Schelling say about human desire?

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