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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 a bike owner buying a bike for $90 and selling it for $150?
(a) He says that the exchange replaces a real bicycle with abstract money.
(b) He says that the owner gains a profit of $60.
(c) He says that the exchange is consistent with laws of capitalism.
(d) He says that the owner still has to pay overhead, so the exchange is equal.

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

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

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

5. What does Schelling say is an atomic pile is an example of?
(a) A paradoxical process.
(b) A lemon model.
(c) A critical-mass model.
(d) A half-life model.

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

7. Why does Schelling say people tend to sit in the back of a theater?
(a) Because they are afraid of the front.
(b) Because they want to be able to leave.
(c) Because that's where the desirable people sit.
(d) Because it is darker there.

8. What example does Schelling use as an example of discrimination?
(a) Boys and girls.
(b) Fish and fowl.
(c) American and European.
(d) Individual and mass.

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

10. What does Schelling say social conventions mediate between?
(a) Desire and restraint.
(b) Violence and the threat of punishment.
(c) Individual interest and collective purpose.
(d) Order and chaos.

11. What does Schelling say about human desire?
(a) It seeks mathematically-predictable levels of stability.
(b) It is torn between irreconcilable desires for different states.
(c) It is torn within itself and it is split from its own language.
(d) It changes from childhood to teen years to adulthood.

12. What does Schelling say about the underlying motivation for segregation?
(a) It is based in race or ethnic hatred.
(b) It can be fairly ordinary.
(c) It is necessary.
(d) ItIt is inevitable.

13. What term does Garrett Hardin use to describe people who infringe on others by following their own desires intently?
(a) Commons.
(b) Lemons.
(c) Self-fulfilling prophecy.
(d) Critical mass.

14. When does Schelling say social behavior can be considered a critical mass?
(a) When the behavior matches with models that were based in the physics of nuclear fission.
(b) When social criticism is essential to defining the problem.
(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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What example from nature does Schelling contrapose to human decisions?

2. What does Schelling say social scientists consider in behavior modeling?

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

4. What natural phenomenon does Schelling compare the economy to?

5. What else does Schelling say social scientists consider in behavior modeling?

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