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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 the "open model" represent?
(a) A model for mobility.
(b) A history of America.
(c) A population model for gated communities.
(d) An even age distribution.

2. How hockey players feel when the league makes helmets mandatory, in Schelling's analysis?
(a) Rebellious.
(b) Glad.
(c) Resentful.
(d) Relieved.

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

4. Schelling says that it is hard to draw the line between "individually motivated" segregation and what?
(a) Religious aversions.
(b) Historical discrimination.
(c) Ethnic aversions.
(d) Institutional or economic discrimination.

5. What social science does Schelling say sociology resembles?
(a) Paranormal psychology.
(b) History.
(c) Economics.
(d) Psychology.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say about economic systems that allow unequal distribution of wealth?

2. How does Schelling describe a critical-mass behavior?

3. What does Schelling say is the key to predicting whether there will be a critical mass?

4. What fear does Schelling say informs the behavior that is ingrained in people's decisions where to sit in a theater?

5. Who was the American president who ordered the bomb to be dropped?

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