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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What model of human behavior does Schelling say arms control follows?
(a) Binary choice model.
(b) Commons model.
(c) The herding instinct.
(d) Critical-mass model.

2. What does Schelling say might be a demographic consequence of parents choosing their children's traits?
(a) Median size might increase.
(b) Median IQ might increase.
(c) Left-handedness might disappear.
(d) Median longevity might increase.

3. What is an externality?
(a) When additional factors change the terms of the binary choice.
(b) When another person's actions affect your decision.
(c) A consequence unrelated to the choice, but one that proceeds from it and has to be considered.
(d) A factor that the social scientist has to include to balance the appearance of bias in his model.

4. What does Schelling say the simplest model of a closed system with a density enhancement contains?
(a) Population numbers and individual preferences.
(b) Population numbers and historical date.
(c) Future forecasting predictions.
(d) Micropopulation numbers and statistical projections.

5. What does Schelling say happens when the youngest ten percent of a population moves?
(a) There is a new "youngest" ten percent.
(b) The population is now considered more distributed.
(c) The average age of the group decreases.
(d) The old people are next to

6. What process does Schelling imagine parents choosing to undergo, in his hypothetical example?
(a) Clairvoyance.
(b) Chromosome selection.
(c) Immunization.
(d) Community planning.

7. What does Schelling say the government might do to correct the imbalance of male and female babies?
(a) Offer incentives for immigrants with female children.
(b) Teach female children to read and write.
(c) Offer tax incentives.
(d) Punish parents with too many boys.

8. In what war did Truman's successor have to decide whether to drop the bomb?
(a) The Falklands conflict.
(b) Vietnam.
(c) The Greek Civil War.
(d) The Korean War.

9. What was the status of nuclear weapons under Truman's successor?
(a) They became conventional weapons.
(b) They were classified as weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
(c) They were heavily regulated.
(d) They were banned.

10. What does Schelling celebrate in the beginning of the final chapter of Micromotives and Macrobehavior?
(a) That there have not been nuclear attacks since WWII.
(b) That nuclear testing has not continued.
(c) That nuclear weapons have been curtailed through treaties.
(d) That the USSR dissolved.

11. What aspect of the history of nuclear weapons does Schelling describe?
(a) Changing attitudes toward them.
(b) Their increasing power.
(c) Evolving detonation technology.
(d) Treaties regulating them.

12. What does Schelling say about mathematical identities?
(a) They are discrete.
(b) They are continuous.
(c) They are constraining.
(d) They are unreliable.

13. What does Schelling ultimately say about choosing the sex of one's baby?
(a) It is better left to nature.
(b) It can be an economic growth opportunity.
(c) It can give countries competitive advantages.
(d) It can rationalize human society.

14. What does Schelling say about offspring?
(a) They will probably look like their mothers.
(b) They will probably look like their maternal grandfathers.
(c) They will probably look like their paternal grandmothers.
(d) They will probably look like their fathers.

15. How does Schelling predict nations will behave with regard to nuclear arms control?
(a) If there are terrorists anywhere in the world, nations will still maintain nuclear arsenals.
(b) If one leads the others will follow.
(c) If one decides to limit arms, the price of arms will go up.
(d) If arms are limited, other weapons will experience arms races.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. What does Schelling say is the best use of sorting and mixing models?

3. What does Schelling say parents are most concerned with in the case of vaccination?

4. What example does Schelling use to illustrate decisions of the majority that can be known?

5. What does Schelling say would be the downside to chromosomal modification?

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