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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 can a closed system with a density enhancement include, in Schelling's analysis?
(a) Heritage and culture.
(b) Ethnicity, mobility and community.
(c) Age, income and marital status.
(d) Morality and ethics.
2. What does Schelling say is important in economics?
(a) Generalizations.
(b) Randomness.
(c) Natural laws.
(d) Individual behavior.
3. What does Schelling say the number of bikes stolen is almost identical to?
(a) One third of the number of bikes bought new.
(b) The number of bikes reported stolen.
(c) The number of bikes that cannot be fixed each year.
(d) The number of bikes not reported stolen.
4. What additional explanation does Schelling offer for seat selection?
(a) He says it might be random.
(b) He says it might be a learned process.
(c) He says it might be influenced by the spirits.
(d) He says it might be evidence of a higher intelligence.
5. What does Schelling say would be the result of chromosomal selection that allowed parents to select for high-IQ children?
(a) Schools would not have to keep children until sixteen years of age.
(b) The IQ range would yield a higher average IQ.
(c) The incidence of social problems would increase, since intelligence and maturity are different variables.
(d) Parents would not have to work because their children would make more money and support them.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Schelling say Hardin based his research on?
2. What does Schelling say would a density enhancement add to a closed model? Improved distribution modeling. Room for more factors to be included. Relief from certain mathematical constraints.
3. What do hockey players fear in regard to the issue of wearing helmets, in Schelling's analysis?
4. What does Schelling say people feel in a "bounded-neighborhood" model?
5. How does Schelling describe a critical-mass behavior?
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