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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 being involved.
(b) The fear of a pop quiz in class.
(c) The fear of being called on stage.
(d) The fear of violent teachers.

2. 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) Taking a friend of another race to dinner.
(d) Buying a foreign car because it has good gas mileage.

3. What social science does Schelling say sociology resembles?
(a) History.
(b) Economics.
(c) Paranormal psychology.
(d) Psychology.

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

5. What does Schelling say the defines independent variable in a behavioral system?
(a) The sum of the dependent variables.
(b) The sum of the dependent variables in parallel systems.
(c) The sum of the independent variables in linked systems.
(d) The imp of the perverse.

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

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

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

9. What does Schelling say is the goal of his model for describing segregation?
(a) An equitable division of resources between racial groups.
(b) An end to the tensions between ethnic groups.
(c) A preservation of tensions between ethnic groups.
(d) An acceptable equilibrium between racial groups.

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

11. 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 does not need to know how it works, he only has to perform his part.
(c) He strives for a full understanding of every part.
(d) He tends to organize with others in his similar situation.

12. What does Schelling say is the term for a situation where two people hurt themselves and each other by making self-interested decisions?
(a) Prisoner's dilemma.
(b) The tipping-point/critical-mass model.
(c) The Spanish prisoner.
(d) The lemon model.

13. What does Schelling say discrimination is?
(a) Refusal to consider reason in a decision.
(b) Preference for one race over another.
(c) Willingness to be biased.
(d) Conscious awareness of a choice.

14. What does Schelling say has to be closely attended to, in economic analysis?
(a) Definition of terms.
(b) The invisible hand of the market.
(c) Rhetoric of equality.
(d) Economists' desire for certain outcomes.

15. What does Schelling say was seeking equilibrium as America's space industry interacted with the Russians'?
(a) The system of America's universities which produced scientists.
(b) The system of America's space agencies.
(c) The system of technical knowledge itself.
(d) The system of America's military defense industry.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Schelling explain blacks and whites being excluded from each other's churches?

2. What does Schelling say is the result if aggregate behavior results from a small number of variables?

3. What does Schelling say race discrimination is caused by?

4. How does Schelling say the Russian's space program affected America's space program?

5. What part of a heating system does Schelling use as a metaphor for human behavior?

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