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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Schelling describe discrimination?
(a) As the opposite of the free market.
(b) As a court of opinion and rumor.
(c) As a two-fold distinction.
(d) As an absolute preference.

2. What does Schelling say individuals react to?
(a) The desire of the mass.
(b) Their own stimuli.
(c) The collective unconscious.
(d) The fear of the mass.

3. What does Schelling say race discrimination is caused by?
(a) Historical enmity.
(b) Economic inequality.
(c) Past injustices.
(d) False perceptions.

4. How does Schelling describe the Golden Gate Bridge?
(a) As a semi-closed system.
(b) As an open system.
(c) As a static equilibrium.
(d) As a closed system.

5. How does the heating system parallel human behavior in Schelling's example?
(a) A rising variable alternatively over and under performs.
(b) A trait becomes more and more intense until it expresses itself in heat.
(c) A voice distributes its energy into the environment around it.
(d) A vessel carries whatever hot or cold air or water runs through it.

6. How does Schelling explain blacks and whites being excluded from each other's churches?
(a) Reciprocal behavior.
(b) Historical guilt.
(c) Jim Crow laws.
(d) Race hatred.

7. What does Schelling say is the key to predicting whether there will be a critical mass?
(a) Defining the number that will constitute the critical mass.
(b) Knowing why people delay their decisions.
(c) Modeling the undesirability of the decision being weighed.
(d) Articulating the fears that surround the decision in the collective unconscious.

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

9. What does Schelling say social scientists consider in behavior modeling?
(a) Fear of punishment.
(b) The collective unconscious.
(c) Political environment.
(d) Individual incentives.

10. What example from human psychology does Schelling contrapose to conscious choice?
(a) Instinct.
(b) Hunger.
(c) Dread and awe.
(d) Parasympathetic behavior.

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

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

13. What fear does Schelling say informs the behavior that is ingrained in people's decisions where to sit in a theater?
(a) The fear of being involved.
(b) The fear of a pop quiz in class.
(c) The fear of being called on stage.
(d) The fear of violent teachers.

14. What consequence does Schelling say might affect people sitting closer to the stage?
(a) They are socially outcast.
(b) They are forced to be watched by the others.
(c) They can see and hear better.
(d) They are will be last to leave.

15. What tool does Schelling say social scientists use to describe behaviors such as human principles and household activities?
(a) Computer architecture.
(b) Metaphors.
(c) Graphic designs.
(d) Math.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Schelling's analysis, what behavior governs the people filling the theater?

3. What does Schelling say governs each decision?

4. What does Schelling say a doctor administering measles vaccines found, that illustrates the human behavior Schelling is describing?

5. To what does Schelling compare a sociologist?

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