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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why can the Golden Gate Bridge charge a double toll for traffic in one direction without fear of being unfair?
(a) Because the traffic reverses direction at the end of every day.
(b) Because even one-way drivers will return one day.
(c) Because people coming south have more money than people in the city.
(d) Because tolls are designed to repair social inequality.

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

3. What is the second thing Schelling says a social behavior model can be?
(a) A dialogue about the nature of the evidence in a certain system.
(b) A piece of evidence from which an entire system can be deduced.
(c) An actual biological or mechanical system that embodies a certain relationship.
(d) A theory that explains a preponderance of evidence.

4. What does Schelling say the processes of separation, segregation, sharing, and mixing have in common?
(a) Individuals suffer the effects of what is really mass behavior.
(b) Aggregate behaviors influenced by individual decisions.
(c) Irrational behavior resulting in intelligible trends.
(d) Many chaotic events assuming order as they are narrated.

5. 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 transcendental relationship.
(b) The acceleration principle.
(c) A direct proportion.
(d) An economic proposition.

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

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

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

9. What else does Schelling say social scientists consider in behavior modeling?
(a) Collective results.
(b) Religious history.
(c) Ethnic conflicts.
(d) Philosophical preferences.

10. What part of a heating system does Schelling use as a metaphor for human behavior?
(a) A pipe.
(b) A heating fan.
(c) A thermostat.
(d) A boiler.

11. What does Schelling say is the result if aggregate behavior results from a small number of variables?
(a) Doubt.
(b) Certainty.
(c) Conflict.
(d) Faith.

12. What does Schelling compare to the process of tracking the circulation of money in an economy?
(a) The development and use of language.
(b) Water's movement from the ocean to clouds to rivers to the ocean.
(c) Musical chairs.
(d) Rumors circulating.

13. What does Schelling say about economic systems that allow unequal distribution of wealth?
(a) That they compel amazement, but not admiration.
(b) That they are pernicious.
(c) That, based on human nature, they are inevitable.
(d) That they are admirable.

14. Under what condition, does Schelling say, would a black person feel more comfortable reading ads in a church bulletin?
(a) If the ads were placed by people of the same denomination.
(b) If the ads were placed by black people.
(c) If the ads specified that race was not an issue.
(d) If the ads asked reasonable prices for goods being sold.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Schelling explain blacks and whites being excluded from each other's churches?

2. What does Schelling say social conventions mediate between?

3. What does Schelling say the presence of a small group of black students in a college student body does for any economic propositions about the behavior of that student body?

4. What does Schelling say individual behaviors have in economic analysis?

5. What does Schelling say distinguishes the sociologist from other scientists?

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