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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the laws visible in the human behavior Schelling describes lead you to expect in other cyclic processes?
(a) Unexpected results.
(b) Hidden variables.
(c) Lag time.
(d) Latent resistances.

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

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

4. Schelling says that it is hard to draw the line between "individually motivated" segregation and what?
(a) Religious aversions.
(b) Institutional or economic discrimination.
(c) Historical discrimination.
(d) Ethnic aversions.

5. What consequence does Schelling say might affect people sitting closer to the stage?
(a) They are socially outcast.
(b) They can see and hear better.
(c) They are will be last to leave.
(d) They are forced to be watched by the others.

6. What does Schelling say is essential to economic analysis?
(a) Narrative.
(b) Accounting statements.
(c) Income and economic growth.
(d) Profit and loss.

7. 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.

8. What term does Garrett Hardin use to describe people who infringe on others by following their own desires intently?
(a) Commons.
(b) Critical mass.
(c) Lemons.
(d) Self-fulfilling prophecy.

9. What part of a heating system does Schelling use as a metaphor for human behavior?
(a) A heating fan.
(b) A pipe.
(c) A thermostat.
(d) A boiler.

10. How does Schelling describe daylight savings time?
(a) As a self-fulfilling prophecy.
(b) As a critical mass.
(c) As a self-enforcing convention.
(d) As a self-displacing prophecy.

11. What example does Schelling use to show discrimination in an atypical light?
(a) Shopping in a store that has fresh produce.
(b) Driving home the long way to avoid the highway.
(c) Buying a foreign car because it has good gas mileage.
(d) Taking a friend of another race to dinner.

12. What does Schelling say you must know in order to understand what segregation might result from choice?
(a) The influence of the media.
(b) The personalities of each group's leaders.
(c) Incentives behind the behavior.
(d) The local political environment.

13. What ingrained behavior does Schelling say informs the decision where to sit in a theater?
(a) Not to sit next to anyone.
(b) Not to sit in the back.
(c) Not to sit in front.
(d) Not to sit near funny-looking people.

14. How many calls does the individual receive, in the aggregate, in Schelling's analysis?
(a) It depends on his personality.
(b) As many as others make.
(c) As many as he makes.
(d) It depends on how many people he knows.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say individual behaviors have in economic analysis?

2. What natural phenomenon does Schelling compare the economy to?

3. How does Schelling describe the Golden Gate Bridge?

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

5. Why might segregation result without discrimination?

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