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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Schelling say most people will say about their driving?
(a) They are charismatic.
(b) They are better than average.
(c) They are average.
(d) They are unique.

4. What does the critical mass provide for the individual?
(a) Deniability.
(b) Safety in numbers.
(c) Confidence that he is right.
(d) A plausible excuse.

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

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

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

8. How do people affect each other's decisions where to sit in theater?
(a) Theatres fill from the back-middle to the front and then to the back.
(b) Early arrivals sit in back, then the rest fill from the rear.
(c) Theatres fill from the middle to the sides and back.
(d) Theatres fill randomly.

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

10. What does Schelling say constrains the social scientist's model for race segregation?
(a) Quantitative analysis.
(b) Historical analysis.
(c) Qualitative analysis.
(d) Political analysis.

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

12. What additional reason does Schelling give for the desire to sit in the back of a theater?
(a) People want to be prepared to flee.
(b) People want to watch people arrive.
(c) People want to feel safe in the dark.
(d) People want to be far from the stage.

13. How does the heating system parallel human behavior in Schelling's example?
(a) A rising variable alternatively over and under performs.
(b) A vessel carries whatever hot or cold air or water runs through it.
(c) A voice distributes its energy into the environment around it.
(d) A trait becomes more and more intense until it expresses itself in heat.

14. What ingrained behavior does Schelling say informs the decision where to sit in a theater?
(a) Not to sit near funny-looking people.
(b) Not to sit next to anyone.
(c) Not to sit in the back.
(d) Not to sit in front.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Schelling ultimately say about a decision such as where to sit in a theater?

3. What does Schelling use his lecture to an audience of 800 people to illustrate?

4. 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?

5. What example does Schelling use to show discrimination in an atypical light?

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