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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 balance in individual cases?
(a) It is a transcendent law.
(b) It defines the nature of human beings.
(c) It does not exist.
(d) It is evidence of the collective unconscious.

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does Schelling say the Russian's space program affected America's space program?
(a) The Russians were determined to win superiority, but victory cost more than they could afford.
(b) The Americans were determined not to be outdone from the beginning.
(c) There was a short lag before America's investment caught up with and surpassed the Russians'.
(d) The Americans answered the Russians feat for feat.

8. What does Schelling ultimately say about a decision such as where to sit in a theater?
(a) It is not predictable but it nonetheless follows a pattern.
(b) It is a common decision that people make the same way depending on where they are in the crowd.
(c) It is neither meaningful nor memorable.
(d) It is neither superficial nor thoughtless.

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

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

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

12. 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 called on stage.
(c) The fear of being involved.
(d) The fear of a pop quiz in class.

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

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

15. 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?
(a) Introduces non-economic competition.
(b) Introduces tension and inequality.
(c) Introduces uncertainty.
(d) Introduces randomness.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Schelling say about Christmas cards?

4. How many calls does the individual receive, in the aggregate, in Schelling's analysis?

5. What does Schelling say people have a tendency to do?

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