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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Schelling say the success of society is evaluated?

2. What does Schelling use his lecture to an audience of 800 people to illustrate?

3. How do people affect each other's decisions where to sit in theater?

4. What does Schelling say social scientists will replace the aspects of a system with in order to understand the system?

5. What does Schelling say the "tipping" critical-mass model first described?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Schelling describe nuclear weapons in his final chapter?

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

3. How does Schelling define equilibrium?

4. What is the relationship between behaviors that can be modeled and free will, in Schelling's analysis?

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

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

7. How is nuclear arms control a self-fulfilling prophecy, in Schelling's analysis/

8. Which U.S. presidents' decisions about nuclear weapons does Schelling describe?

9. What does Schelling say is the best use for the models he is describing?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are Schelling's values? Where does he stand on the issue of safety, or integration, or segregation or vaccines? Using evidence from the book, describe Schelling's personal views about the issues he raises, and explain the reasoning by which he justifies these personal views.

Essay Topic 2

What is a positive kind of discrimination, and what tools does a society or a government have for reinforcing positive discrimination?

Essay Topic 3

Micromotives and Macrobehavior was written in 1981, when race relations in the U.S. were tense in the aftermath of the civil rights movement of the sixties and seventies. While the book responded to the inflammatory situation by analyzing micromotives, the past three decades have seen race relations change in the U.S. What aspects of Schelling's analysis is still relevant in the atmosphere of race relations today, and what factors have caused them to change or evolve?

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