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

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

3. What does Schelling say about the frequency of pairs?
(a) Pairs are common if your criteria are simple.
(b) Pairs are a human construct.
(c) Many phenomena occur in pairs.
(d) Pairs are rare in nature but common in society.

4. What example from nature does Schelling contrapose to human decisions?
(a) Evolution.
(b) Gravity.
(c) Instinct.
(d) Photosynthesis.

5. Why might segregation result without discrimination?
(a) Areas might be historically aligned with one group or another.
(b) Either of two groups might want to be the majority in an area.
(c) Areas might have been populated during successive waves of immigration.
(d) A city might have built housing for foreign refugees of war or famine.

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

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

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

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

10. What does Schelling say distinguishes the sociologist from other scientists?
(a) He is involved in the life he is studying.
(b) He studies himself as well as his subject.
(c) He publishes in different journals.
(d) He uses non-mathematical data.

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

12. What does Schelling say people have a tendency to do?
(a) Put others down.
(b) Put themselves in good positions.
(c) Be honest.
(d) Hide from unpleasant facts.

13. What does Schelling say people feel in a "bounded-neighborhood" model?
(a) Apprehensive about the future if there is a chance that other ethnicities might take over.
(b) Trapped among people similar to themselves.
(c) Happy if members of another race do not outnumber them.
(d) Happy if they are the vast majority.

14. What does Schelling say the farmer needs to know?
(a) How much milk his cows are giving.
(b) Who will take his milk to market.
(c) How much it will cost the driver to take his milk to market.
(d) Who will buy his milk.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which example does Schelling say complicates the prospect of arriving at a definitive proposition?

2. How does Schelling describe discrimination?

3. What tool does Schelling say social scientists use to describe behaviors such as human principles and household activities?

4. What does Schelling say race discrimination is caused by?

5. What does Schelling say you must know in order to understand what segregation might result from choice?

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