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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 would be at risk in a culture where parents preferred male children?
(a) Safety.
(b) Monogamous marriage.
(c) Religion.
(d) Cultural traditions.

2. How many possibilities does Schelling say social scientists have to account for when charting binary choice?
(a) Many, but not an infinite amount.
(b) Only two.
(c) An infinite amount.
(d) Eight to sixteen.

3. What does Schelling say are discrete variables?
(a) Height, weight and eye color.
(b) Sex, race and religion.
(c) Education, certifications and career.
(d) History, ethnicity and tradition.

4. In what war did Truman's successor have to decide whether to drop the bomb?
(a) The Greek Civil War.
(b) The Korean War.
(c) Vietnam.
(d) The Falklands conflict.

5. What does it mean if the median age is 45 in an open model?
(a) People over 90 will stay to be part of the group.
(b) People will stay until they move to nursing homes.
(c) Everyone under 35 and everyone over 65 will move out.
(d) Everyone under 25 and over 70 will move out.

6. What is another trait does Schelling say parents might be able to choose?
(a) Historical knowledge.
(b) Weight.
(c) Skin color.
(d) IQ.

7. Where do social scientists chart binary choices?
(a) In statistical analyses.
(b) In articles.
(c) In spreadsheets.
(d) In schematics.

8. What does Schelling say the "open model" represent?
(a) An even age distribution.
(b) A population model for gated communities.
(c) A model for mobility.
(d) A history of America.

9. What model of human behavior does Schelling say arms control follows?
(a) The herding instinct.
(b) Commons model.
(c) Critical-mass model.
(d) Binary choice model.

10. How many distinct eggs does Schelling say a woman can produce?
(a) 8 million.
(b) 4 million.
(c) 180,000.
(d) 1 million.

11. What does Schelling say would a density enhancement add to a closed model? Improved distribution modeling. Room for more factors to be included. Relief from certain mathematical constraints.
(a) Predictive accuracy.
(b) Room for more factors to be included.
(c) Improved distribution modeling.
(d) Relief from certain mathematical constraints.

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

13. What does Schelling celebrate in the beginning of the final chapter of Micromotives and Macrobehavior?
(a) That there have not been nuclear attacks since WWII.
(b) That nuclear weapons have been curtailed through treaties.
(c) That the USSR dissolved.
(d) That nuclear testing has not continued.

14. What second example does Schelling use to demonstrate a closed system with a density enhancement?
(a) Likely careers for college students.
(b) Family origins of college students.
(c) College graduates distribution.
(d) Prospective college students.

15. What does Schelling say about the "closed model"?
(a) It considers more than age.
(b) It predicts who will leave.
(c) It considers age alone.
(d) It describes the factors that pull people out of a community.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say the simplest model of a closed system with a density enhancement contains?

2. Who was the successor to the President who dropped the bomb?

3. What does Schelling say about an equilibrium division of the population?

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

5. What does Schelling say might disappear if parents had the ability to choose their children's traits?

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