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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Schelling say is the result if aggregate behavior results from a small number of variables?
(a) Conflict.
(b) Doubt.
(c) Certainty.
(d) Faith.

3. What do the laws visible in the human behavior Schelling describes lead you to expect in other cyclic processes?
(a) Latent resistances.
(b) Hidden variables.
(c) Unexpected results.
(d) Lag time.

4. What does Schelling say constrains the social scientist's model for race segregation?
(a) Political analysis.
(b) Historical analysis.
(c) Quantitative analysis.
(d) Qualitative analysis.

5. What does Schelling say is the goal of his model for describing segregation?
(a) An acceptable equilibrium between racial groups.
(b) An end to the tensions between ethnic groups.
(c) A preservation of tensions between ethnic groups.
(d) An equitable division of resources between racial groups.

6. When does Schelling say social behavior can be considered a critical mass?
(a) When social criticism is essential to defining the problem.
(b) When the behavior has to do with things sold by the pound.
(c) When the number of people exhibiting behavior is the most important factor.
(d) When the behavior matches with models that were based in the physics of nuclear fission.

7. How do people affect each other's decisions where to sit in theater?
(a) Theatres fill from the back-middle to the front and then to the back.
(b) Theatres fill from the middle to the sides and back.
(c) Early arrivals sit in back, then the rest fill from the rear.
(d) Theatres fill randomly.

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

9. What is the second thing Schelling says a social behavior model can be?
(a) A theory that explains a preponderance of evidence.
(b) A piece of evidence from which an entire system can be deduced.
(c) A dialogue about the nature of the evidence in a certain system.
(d) An actual biological or mechanical system that embodies a certain relationship.

10. What does Schelling say has to be closely attended to, in economic analysis?
(a) Economists' desire for certain outcomes.
(b) The invisible hand of the market.
(c) Rhetoric of equality.
(d) Definition of terms.

11. What does Schelling say provides clear evidence of black versus white areas in American cities?
(a) First-hand observation.
(b) Maps.
(c) History books.
(d) Demography.

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

13. What natural phenomenon does Schelling compare the economy to?
(a) An ocean ecosystem.
(b) A forest.
(c) Celestial bodies.
(d) An ant colony.

14. What is the first thing Schelling says a social behavior model can be?
(a) A precise statement of a set of relationships.
(b) A flow chart.
(c) A hypothetical explanation of individual's motives.
(d) A form of accounting.

15. How many calls does the individual receive, in the aggregate, in Schelling's analysis?
(a) As many as he makes.
(b) As many as others make.
(c) It depends on his personality.
(d) It depends on how many people he knows.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say Hardin based his research on?

2. What social science does Schelling say sociology resembles?

3. What does Schelling say race discrimination can lead to?

4. What does Schelling ultimately say about a decision such as where to sit in a theater?

5. What does Schelling say the farmer needs to know?

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