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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: An Astonishing Sixty Years: The Legacy of Hiroshima.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What assumption does Schelling make about people's feelings about nuclear weapons?
(a) People universally abhor them.
(b) People are tormented about loving and loathing them.
(c) People universally need them as deterrents.
(d) People universally see them as humanity's salvation.

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

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

4. What does Schelling say the presence of a small group of black students in a college student body does for any economic propositions about the behavior of that student body?
(a) Introduces non-economic competition.
(b) Introduces randomness.
(c) Introduces uncertainty.
(d) Introduces tension and inequality.

5. What does Schelling say was seeking equilibrium as America's space industry interacted with the Russians'?
(a) The system of America's military defense industry.
(b) The system of America's space agencies.
(c) The system of America's universities which produced scientists.
(d) The system of technical knowledge itself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What model of human behavior does Schelling say arms control follows?

2. What vocabulary does Schelling use for "going along with the crowd"?

3. What does Schelling say race discrimination is caused by?

4. What is the first thing Schelling says a social behavior model can be?

5. What was the status of nuclear weapons under Kennedy and Johnson?

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