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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 Hardin based his research on?
(a) Cows grazing.
(b) Pollution.
(c) People selling cars.
(d) Ethnic populations moving into new neighborhoods.

2. What U.S. President decided not to use nuclear weapons in Kuwait?
(a) Bill Clinton.
(b) George W. Bush.
(c) George H. W. Bush.
(d) Ronald Reagan.

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

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

5. What does Schelling say can be included in closed models?
(a) Longevity predictions.
(b) Alternate preferences.
(c) Predictions.
(d) Age.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say about discrimination as a reason for segregation?

2. What does Schelling say is the importance of segregation and integration models?

3. What does Schelling say the "tipping" critical-mass model first described?

4. What can a closed system with a density enhancement include, in Schelling's analysis?

5. What does Schelling say will be necessary to satisfy people with a closed model?

(see the answer key)

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