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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Schelling say parents are most concerned with in the case of vaccination?
(a) Who else is vaccinating their children.
(b) The benefits of the vaccine.
(c) The consequences of not being vaccinated.
(d) How often the vaccination services are available.

2. What does Schelling say the segregation/integration model identify in addition to population concerns?
(a) Crime.
(b) Biases.
(c) Activity.
(d) Market trends.

3. What does Schelling say is the importance of segregation and integration models?
(a) They help us build conceptual models of more complex behavior like dating and marriage.
(b) They identify an important phenomenon.
(c) They are useful in certain mathematical applications.
(d) They provide the tools for influencing population distribution

4. Who was the successor to the President who dropped the bomb?
(a) Roosevelt.
(b) Kennedy.
(c) Truman.
(d) Eisenhower.

5. What does Schelling say the British argued with the American when he was deciding whether to use the bomb?
(a) Not to deploy it a second time.
(b) Not to use it.
(c) To use it in Germany.
(d) To use it on military targets.

6. How hockey players feel when the league makes helmets mandatory, in Schelling's analysis?
(a) Glad.
(b) Resentful.
(c) Rebellious.
(d) Relieved.

7. What is an unconditional preference?
(a) A preference that does not acknowledge other alternatives.
(b) A force of psychological nature.
(c) A preference that does not change regardless of others' actions.
(d) A preference that has to be adopted by all members of a group.

8. Who was the American president who ordered the bomb to be dropped?
(a) Roosevelt.
(b) Eisenhower.
(c) Kennedy.
(d) Truman.

9. What does Schelling say would be the result of his hypothetical case?
(a) He says that there would likely be larger communities in some cultures.
(b) He says that there would likely be smaller communities in some cultures. He says that there would likely be larger communities in some cultures.
(c) He says that it would be impossible to know what would happen.
(d) He says that the outcome would depend on the sample size.

10. What does Schelling say the government might do to correct the imbalance of male and female babies?
(a) Punish parents with too many boys.
(b) Teach female children to read and write.
(c) Offer incentives for immigrants with female children.
(d) Offer tax incentives.

11. What does Schelling say would be the result of chromosomal selection that allowed parents to select for high-IQ children?
(a) The incidence of social problems would increase, since intelligence and maturity are different variables.
(b) The IQ range would yield a higher average IQ.
(c) Schools would not have to keep children until sixteen years of age.
(d) Parents would not have to work because their children would make more money and support them.

12. What example does Schelling use to illustrate decisions of the majority that can be known?
(a) Whether people are only children.
(b) What language people speak.
(c) Whether people are vaccinated.
(d) How to dress for an office environment.

13. What does Schelling say about mathematical identities?
(a) They are continuous.
(b) They are discrete.
(c) They are constraining.
(d) They are unreliable.

14. What does Schelling say about offspring?
(a) They will probably look like their fathers.
(b) They will probably look like their maternal grandfathers.
(c) They will probably look like their mothers.
(d) They will probably look like their paternal grandmothers.

15. What does Schelling say is the goal of a binary choice model?
(a) To expand the possibilities.
(b) To accurately characterize the influential factors.
(c) To limit the possibilities.
(d) To reach equilibrium.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Schelling arrive at the number of genetic possibilities in two people's offspring?

2. What does Schelling say can be included in closed models?

3. What does Schelling say happens when the youngest ten percent of a population moves?

4. What U.S. President decided not to use nuclear weapons in Kuwait?

5. What does Schelling say economic models of human behavior consider?

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