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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 has to be closely attended to, in economic analysis?
(a) Rhetoric of equality.
(b) Definition of terms.
(c) Economists' desire for certain outcomes.
(d) The invisible hand of the market.

2. What does Schelling say you must know in order to understand what segregation might result from choice?
(a) The influence of the media.
(b) The personalities of each group's leaders.
(c) Incentives behind the behavior.
(d) The local political environment.

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

4. In Schelling's analysis, what behavior governs the people filling the theater?
(a) Bunching behavior.
(b) Group aversion.
(c) Randomness.
(d) Chaos.

5. How does Schelling describe a decision such as choosing a seat in a theater?
(a) As something common and seemingly thoughtless that is nonetheless informed by subliminal motives.
(b) As a special case that cannot be analyzed using any particular interpretive framework.
(c) As a decision that can be predicted by mathematical laws of possibility.
(d) As a commonplace act that manifests the unconscious childhood sexual trauma of the individual.

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

7. What example does Schelling use to show discrimination in an atypical light?
(a) Shopping in a store that has fresh produce.
(b) Driving home the long way to avoid the highway.
(c) Buying a foreign car because it has good gas mileage.
(d) Taking a friend of another race to dinner.

8. Schelling says that it is hard to draw the line between "individually motivated" segregation and what?
(a) Institutional or economic discrimination.
(b) Religious aversions.
(c) Historical discrimination.
(d) Ethnic aversions.

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. 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 mathematically grounded.
(c) It has to be inclusive and correct.
(d) It has to be able to be translated into an equation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say is the key to predicting whether there will be a critical mass?

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

3. What is the first thing Schelling says a social behavior model can be?

4. What does Schelling say about human desire?

5. What does Schelling say Hardin based his research on?

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