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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 the heating-system-like aspect of human behavior seek, in Schelling's analysis?
(a) Relief from tension.
(b) An appropriate level.
(c) Emptiness.
(d) Perpetual comfort.

2. How does Schelling say the success of society is evaluated?
(a) On the aggregate, not the individual level.
(b) In the welfare of the least successful individuals.
(c) In the health and success of individuals.
(d) In the success of the leaders and superior individuals.

3. What does Schelling use his lecture to an audience of 800 people to illustrate?
(a) Spatial distribution.
(b) Group dynamics.
(c) Randomness.
(d) Economic theories of entertainment.

4. What vocabulary does Schelling use for "going along with the crowd"?
(a) Joining a self-restraining coalition.
(b) Joining the decision of the majority.
(c) The democratic process.
(d) Doing one's own thing.

5. What does Schelling say race discrimination can lead to?
(a) Violence.
(b) Economic discrimination.
(c) Harmful segregation.
(d) Race hatred.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what war did Truman's successor have to decide whether to drop the bomb?

2. What does Schelling say constrains the social scientist's model for race segregation?

3. What part of a heating system does Schelling use as a metaphor for human behavior?

4. Schelling says that it is hard to draw the line between "individually motivated" segregation and what?

5. What does Schelling say is the goal of a binary choice model?

(see the answer key)

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