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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) Sometimes it is deliberate, but not always.
(c) It is always at least unconsciously deliberate.
(d) It is usually harmless.

2. What does Schelling say governs each decision?
(a) Preferences and goals.
(b) Dread and awe.
(c) The collective unconscious.
(d) Longing and fear.

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

4. What does Schelling say the "tipping" critical-mass model first described?
(a) Political change.
(b) Dust being drizzles onto scales.
(c) The boom-bust cycle in economics.
(d) New ethnicities moving into neighborhoods.

5. How many calls does the individual receive, in the aggregate, in Schelling's analysis?
(a) It depends on his personality.
(b) It depends on how many people he knows.
(c) As many as others make.
(d) As many as he makes.

6. What does Schelling say discrimination is?
(a) Willingness to be biased.
(b) Preference for one race over another.
(c) Conscious awareness of a choice.
(d) Refusal to consider reason in a decision.

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 random.
(c) He says it might be influenced by the spirits.
(d) He says it might be a learned process.

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

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

10. What do the laws visible in the human behavior Schelling describes lead you to expect in other cyclic processes?
(a) Lag time.
(b) Hidden variables.
(c) Latent resistances.
(d) Unexpected results.

11. 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 violent teachers.
(b) The fear of being involved.
(c) The fear of a pop quiz in class.
(d) The fear of being called on stage.

12. 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 asked reasonable prices for goods being sold.
(c) If the ads were placed by black people.
(d) If the ads specified that race was not an issue.

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

14. Which example does Schelling say complicates the prospect of arriving at a definitive proposition?
(a) A business with a number of different product lines.
(b) A college with an unequal distribution of male and female students.
(c) A commodity whose price is volatile.
(d) A population spread out over a wide geographical area.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Schelling say people are segregated?

3. What does Schelling say about discrimination?

4. What does Schelling say is an atomic pile is an example of?

5. How does Schelling say the success of society is evaluated?

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