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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What continuous variable does Schelling say parents could select for?
(a) Longevity.
(b) Eye color.
(c) Eyesight.
(d) Left versus right-handedness.

2. What has to happen before hockey players will accept the requirement to wear helmets, in Schelling's analysis?
(a) A famous player has to be injured.
(b) Flattering helmets need to be designed.
(c) Fans need to want a safer game.
(d) Helmets need to be tested and proved.

3. What is the source of the final chapter in Micromotives and Macrobehavior?
(a) Schelling's Pulitzer lecture.
(b) Schelling's class lecture notes.
(c) Schelling's dissertation.
(d) Schelling's Nobel lecture.

4. What can a closed system with a density enhancement include, in Schelling's analysis?
(a) Age, income and marital status.
(b) Ethnicity, mobility and community.
(c) Morality and ethics.
(d) Heritage and culture.

5. What does Schelling say will be necessary to satisfy people with a closed model?
(a) An arbitray limit on the time period.
(b) An imposed division.
(c) An additional regression model.
(d) A correction for young people.

6. What does Schelling say might be a demographic consequence of parents choosing their children's traits?
(a) Median IQ might increase.
(b) Median longevity might increase.
(c) Median size might increase.
(d) Left-handedness might disappear.

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

8. What does Schelling say happens when the youngest ten percent of a population moves?
(a) The average age of the group decreases.
(b) The old people are next to
(c) The population is now considered more distributed.
(d) There is a new "youngest" ten percent.

9. What does Schelling say would be the downside to chromosomal modification?
(a) Parents would feel pressure to compete by giving their children the modification.
(b) The concept of human-ness might be diminished.
(c) Unforeseen medical problems might emerge.
(d) People could argue that traits result more from nurture.

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

11. What does Schelling say the simplest model of a closed system with a density enhancement contains?
(a) Future forecasting predictions.
(b) Micropopulation numbers and statistical projections.
(c) Population numbers and historical date.
(d) Population numbers and individual preferences.

12. How does Schelling say family size would be affected by his hypothetical case?
(a) Parents could move to the places where their only children would have the best resources.
(b) Parents could stop having kids when they got the balance of boys and girls they wanted.
(c) Parents could move to a place where their children had a better chance of survival.
(d) Parents could choose to abort children if they knew they had deformities.

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

14. What choice does Schelling say eugenics gave parents?
(a) Whether to emigrate.
(b) Whether to have a left-handed or right-handed baby.
(c) Whether to keep a baby or not.
(d) Whether to have a boy or a girl.

15. What does Schelling say might disappear if parents had the ability to choose their children's traits?
(a) Undesirable traits.
(b) Minority cultures.
(c) Inequalities.
(d) Languages.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say about the "closed model"?

2. In what war did Truman's successor have to decide whether to drop the bomb?

3. What second example does Schelling use to demonstrate a closed system with a density enhancement?

4. What discrete variable does Schelling say parents could select for?

5. What does Schelling say parents are most concerned with in the case of vaccination?

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