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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 you must know in order to understand what segregation might result from choice?
(a) The personalities of each group's leaders.
(b) The influence of the media.
(c) Incentives behind the behavior.
(d) The local political environment.
2. What does Schelling compare to the process of tracking the circulation of money in an economy?
(a) The development and use of language.
(b) Rumors circulating.
(c) Water's movement from the ocean to clouds to rivers to the ocean.
(d) Musical chairs.
3. What does Schelling say is the term for a situation where two people hurt themselves and each other by making self-interested decisions?
(a) The Spanish prisoner.
(b) The tipping-point/critical-mass model.
(c) The lemon model.
(d) Prisoner's dilemma.
4. To what does Schelling compare a sociologist?
(a) A mathematician.
(b) A musician.
(c) A naturalist.
(d) A forest ranger.
5. What does Schelling say about discrimination as a reason for segregation?
(a) Discrimination only produces segregation where there is a critical mass.
(b) Some reasons transcend discrimination.
(c) Segregation is a healthy expression of discrimination.
(d) Segregation is actually a conglomeration of other unconscious motives.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does Schelling say people tend to sit in the back of a theater?
2. What does Schelling say social scientists will replace the aspects of a system with in order to understand the system?
3. What does Schelling say about a bike owner buying a bike for $90 and selling it for $150?
4. In Schelling's analysis, what behavior governs the people filling the theater?
5. What does Schelling say people feel in a "bounded-neighborhood" model?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the commons model?
2. In what way does a thermostat mirror the behaviors of many systems, in Schelling's analysis?
3. How does Schelling characterize eugenics?
4. What does Schelling mean when he says that certain behaviors have the character of mathematical "identical truisms"?
5. What methodological difficulty does Schelling see in a college where the population is 75% female, with a handful of black students?
6. What hope does Schelling have for the future of nuclear weapons?
7. What does Schelling say the thermostat model seeks?
8. How many possible genetic variations can result when two people have a baby together?
9. What is the lemons model?
10. What are some of the other traits Schelling says parents might be able to choose in the future?
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