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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 parents are most concerned with in the case of vaccination?
(a) The consequences of not being vaccinated.
(b) The benefits of the vaccine.
(c) Who else is vaccinating their children.
(d) How often the vaccination services are available.

2. What was the status of nuclear weapons under Kennedy and Johnson?
(a) They were classified as weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
(b) They were heavily regulated.
(c) They were classified as unconventional weaponry.
(d) They were banned.

3. What example does Schelling use to illustrate decisions of the majority that can be known?
(a) What language people speak.
(b) Whether people are only children.
(c) Whether people are vaccinated.
(d) How to dress for an office environment.

4. What does Schelling say would a density enhancement add to a closed model? Improved distribution modeling. Room for more factors to be included. Relief from certain mathematical constraints.
(a) Predictive accuracy.
(b) Relief from certain mathematical constraints.
(c) Room for more factors to be included.
(d) Improved distribution modeling.

5. What does Schelling say can be included in closed models?
(a) Alternate preferences.
(b) Longevity predictions.
(c) Predictions.
(d) Age.

6. What does Schelling say would be at risk in a culture where parents preferred male children?
(a) Monogamous marriage.
(b) Safety.
(c) Religion.
(d) Cultural traditions.

7. What does Schelling say will be necessary to satisfy people with a closed model?
(a) An imposed division.
(b) An arbitray limit on the time period.
(c) A correction for young people.
(d) An additional regression model.

8. Where do social scientists chart binary choices?
(a) In spreadsheets.
(b) In articles.
(c) In schematics.
(d) In statistical analyses.

9. What does Schelling say might allow people to select detailed traits of their children?
(a) Radiation therapy.
(b) Chromosome mining.
(c) Genetic mapping.
(d) Hormone therapies.

10. How many distinct sperm does Schelling say a man can produce?
(a) 180,000.
(b) 4 million.
(c) 1 million.
(d) 8 million.

11. What U.S. President decided not to use nuclear weapons in Kuwait?
(a) George H. W. Bush.
(b) Ronald Reagan.
(c) George W. Bush.
(d) Bill Clinton.

12. What does Schelling say is the best use of sorting and mixing models?
(a) Marriage and evolution.
(b) Population and food supply.
(c) Residence or membership.
(d) Free markets.

13. How does Schelling account for people's decision to join the majority or follow their own path?
(a) He says that it depends on the reasonableness of the behavior.
(b) He says that people will follow certain individuals, not "the mass."
(c) Whether to join the majority is not always the most important factor.
(d) He says that to join the majority is hard-wired into people.

14. What is Schelling's tone in his discussion of nuclear weapons?
(a) Awe-inspiring.
(b) Blasé.
(c) Outraged.
(d) Terrified.

15. What does Schelling say might disappear if parents had the ability to choose their children's traits?
(a) Minority cultures.
(b) Inequalities.
(c) Undesirable traits.
(d) Languages.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say happens when the youngest ten percent of a population moves?

2. What does Schelling say the British argued with the American when he was deciding whether to use the bomb?

3. How does Schelling say family size would be affected by his hypothetical case?

4. What example does Schelling use to explain the closed system with a density enhancement?

5. What does Schelling say the simplest model of a closed system with a density enhancement contains?

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