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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 does Schelling say will be necessary to satisfy people with a closed model?
(a) An imposed division.
(b) A correction for young people.
(c) An arbitray limit on the time period.
(d) An additional regression model.

2. What does Schelling say would be the consequence of a culture preferring male children?
(a) Shortage of wives.
(b) Influx of immigrants.
(c) Shortage of workers.
(d) Shortage of soldiers.

3. What does the success of a binary choice model depend on, in Schelling's analysis?
(a) The breadth of the underlying propositions.
(b) The range of factors it excludes.
(c) The inclusiveness of the model's input.
(d) The reliability of the input.

4. What example does Schelling use to illustrate decisions of the majority that can be known?
(a) Whether people are only children.
(b) Whether people are vaccinated.
(c) What language people speak.
(d) How to dress for an office environment.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Schelling say social behavior can be considered a critical mass?

2. Why might segregation result without discrimination?

3. What does Schelling say happens when the youngest ten percent of a population moves?

4. What does Schelling compare to the process of tracking the circulation of money in an economy?

5. What is an externality?

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