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

2. What does Schelling say is essential to economic analysis?
(a) Accounting statements.
(b) Profit and loss.
(c) Income and economic growth.
(d) Narrative.

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

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 critical-mass behavior?
(a) Something that has to be restarted after a certain interval.
(b) Something that cannot be stopped once it begins.
(c) Something that becomes self-sustaining once a certain number of people start to do it.
(d) Something that can only take place if there is a large audience to watch it.

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

7. What does Schelling call the phenomenon when two independent activities are dependent upon each other in that one is looked to as the other's source of growth?
(a) An economic proposition.
(b) A direct proportion.
(c) The acceleration principle.
(d) The transcendental relationship.

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

9. Which example does Schelling say complicates the prospect of arriving at a definitive proposition?
(a) A population spread out over a wide geographical area.
(b) A college with an unequal distribution of male and female students.
(c) A business with a number of different product lines.
(d) A commodity whose price is volatile.

10. To what does Schelling compare a sociologist?
(a) A naturalist.
(b) A forest ranger.
(c) A musician.
(d) A mathematician.

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

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

13. 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.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the second thing Schelling says a social behavior model can be?

3. What example does Schelling use as an example of discrimination?

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

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

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