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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Schelling say about segregation?
(a) It is generally an emotional expression of the collective unconscious.
(b) It is always at least unconsciously deliberate.
(c) Sometimes it is deliberate, but not always.
(d) It is usually harmless.

2. What does Schelling say about balance in individual cases?
(a) It defines the nature of human beings.
(b) It is a transcendent law.
(c) It does not exist.
(d) It is evidence of the collective unconscious.

3. What does Schelling say has to be closely attended to, in economic analysis?
(a) Definition of terms.
(b) Economists' desire for certain outcomes.
(c) Rhetoric of equality.
(d) The invisible hand of the market.

4. What does Schelling say is the goal of his model for describing segregation?
(a) A preservation of tensions between ethnic groups.
(b) An acceptable equilibrium between racial groups.
(c) An end to the tensions between ethnic groups.
(d) An equitable division of resources between racial groups.

5. How does Schelling characterize the individual's relationship with the society?
(a) He tends to specialize, and not to see the influences that drive him.
(b) He tends to organize with others in his similar situation.
(c) He does not need to know how it works, he only has to perform his part.
(d) He strives for a full understanding of every part.

6. What name does Schelling give to the effect people have on each other's behavior?
(a) Anxiety of influence.
(b) Contingent behavior.
(c) Emotional intelligence.
(d) Archetypal intelligence.

7. What additional explanation does Schelling offer for seat selection?
(a) He says it might be evidence of a higher intelligence.
(b) He says it might be influenced by the spirits.
(c) He says it might be a learned process.
(d) He says it might be random.

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

9. What case does Schelling use to illustrate the difficulty of making an economic proposition?
(a) Raising the draft age.
(b) Ending the draft.
(c) Raising the drinking age.
(d) Lowering the drinking age.

10. What does Schelling say a proposition has to have in order to be true?
(a) It has to be inclusive and correct.
(b) It has to be able to be translated into an equation.
(c) It has to be mathematically grounded.
(d) It has to be fair and balanced.

11. What does Schelling say a doctor administering measles vaccines found, that illustrates the human behavior Schelling is describing?
(a) Nothing could convince a certain percentage of the population to get vaccinated.
(b) Once they saw that the vaccine worked, mothers couldn't get enough of it for their children.
(c) Arranging to have children vaccinated meant negotiating with the oldest people in the villages.
(d) When measles began to disappear, mothers would stop having their babies vaccinated, and the disease would come back.

12. When does Schelling say social behavior can be considered a critical mass?
(a) When social criticism is essential to defining the problem.
(b) When the behavior matches with models that were based in the physics of nuclear fission.
(c) When the number of people exhibiting behavior is the most important factor.
(d) When the behavior has to do with things sold by the pound.

13. What does Schelling call the phenomenon when two independent activities are dependent upon each other in that one is looked to as the other's source of growth?
(a) The acceleration principle.
(b) The transcendental relationship.
(c) An economic proposition.
(d) A direct proportion.

14. What does Schelling say about discrimination?
(a) It is a paradox.
(b) It is always offensive.
(c) It is generally accepted.
(d) It is not necessarily malicious.

15. What does Schelling say the number of bikes stolen is almost identical to?
(a) The number of bikes reported stolen.
(b) One third of the number of bikes bought new.
(c) The number of bikes not reported stolen.
(d) The number of bikes that cannot be fixed each year.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Schelling say about a bike owner buying a bike for $90 and selling it for $150?

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

5. What is the first thing Schelling says a social behavior model can be?

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