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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. How does Schelling describe the Golden Gate Bridge?
(a) As a semi-closed system.
(b) As a closed system.
(c) As a static equilibrium.
(d) As an open system.

2. What does Schelling say is essential to economic analysis?
(a) Profit and loss.
(b) Accounting statements.
(c) Narrative.
(d) Income and economic growth.

3. What consequence does Schelling say might affect people sitting closer to the stage?
(a) They are forced to be watched by the others.
(b) They are will be last to leave.
(c) They can see and hear better.
(d) They are socially outcast.

4. What does Schelling say is important in economics?
(a) Individual behavior.
(b) Generalizations.
(c) Randomness.
(d) Natural laws.

5. How does Schelling say the Russian's space program affected America's space program?
(a) The Russians were determined to win superiority, but victory cost more than they could afford.
(b) There was a short lag before America's investment caught up with and surpassed the Russians'.
(c) The Americans answered the Russians feat for feat.
(d) The Americans were determined not to be outdone from the beginning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What example does Schelling use as an example of discrimination?

2. What does Schelling say is the goal of his model for describing segregation?

3. What does Schelling say about discrimination?

4. What does Schelling say social conventions mediate between?

5. What does Schelling say individual behaviors have in economic analysis?

Short Essay Questions

1. What issues does Schelling describe surrounding the question of raising the draft age in the U.S.?

2. In what way does Schelling say that individual and aggregate behavior are different?

3. What natural preference does Schelling say leads to segregation of populations in American cities?

4. In what way does a thermostat mirror the behaviors of many systems, in Schelling's analysis?

5. According to Schelling, what is not included in his model of integration and segregation?

6. How does Schelling use mathematical formulations to express his economic models of behavior?

7. What does Schelling say is the consequence of inadequate analysis of participants in an economic system?

8. How does Schelling say human systems differ from natural systems?

9. How does Schelling describe segregation?

10. What does Schelling say a closed model can be used for with regard to prospective college students?

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