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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Schelling say governs each decision?
(a) Dread and awe.
(b) The collective unconscious.
(c) Longing and fear.
(d) Preferences and goals.

2. What does Schelling say a proposition has to have in order to be true?
(a) It has to be able to be translated into an equation.
(b) It has to be fair and balanced.
(c) It has to be inclusive and correct.
(d) It has to be mathematically grounded.

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

4. What does Schelling say about discrimination?
(a) It is generally accepted.
(b) It is a paradox.
(c) It is not necessarily malicious.
(d) It is always offensive.

5. What does the critical mass provide for the individual?
(a) A plausible excuse.
(b) Safety in numbers.
(c) Confidence that he is right.
(d) Deniability.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Schelling describe the system of skiers going up a lift and coming down the trails?

2. What does Schelling say about the frequency of pairs?

3. What social science does Schelling say sociology resembles?

4. What example does Schelling use to show discrimination in an atypical light?

5. How does Schelling characterize the individual's relationship with the society?

Short Essay Questions

1. What experience got Schelling thinking about distribution?

2. What is a closed model, in Schelling's analysis?

3. What is one consequence Schelling describes of parents being able to choose the sex of their children?

4. What is the open model, in Schelling's analysis?

5. What distinction does Schelling draw between decisions other people have made?

6. What hope does Schelling have for the future of nuclear weapons?

7. What would be the consequence of parents preferring boys to girls, in Schelling's analysis?

8. How does Schelling characterize eugenics?

9. What does Schelling say about discrimination?

10. What are the two important components of idealized models of integration and segregation, in Schelling's analysis?

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